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Lina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel but when she reached the courtyard she was arrested for treason.
First enraptured by the young pianist and rising star Serge Prokofiev during a courtship in Brooklyn then abandoned by him in Moscow Lina survived one of the darkest periods in Soviet history - enduring eight years in the Gulag after she received that fateful telephone call.
Unfolding with the intrigue of a spy novel The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev traces the largely untold story of a remarkable woman who gave up her career her country and her freedom for the brilliant man she married.
Lina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel but when she reached the courtyard she was arrested for treason.
First enraptured by the young pianist and rising star Serge Prokofiev during a courtship in Brooklyn then abandoned by him in Moscow Lina survived one of the darkest periods in Soviet history - enduring eight years in the Gulag after she received that fateful telephone call.
Unfolding with the intrigue of a spy novel The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev traces the largely untold story of a remarkable woman who gave up her career her country and her freedom for the brilliant man she married.
SIMON MORRISON is a professor of music at Princeton University.
He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books and has written for Time Magazine, the New York Review of Books, and New York Times. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and holds a PhD and an MFA in Music History from Princeton University.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
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Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780099581789 |
ISBN-10: | 0099581787 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Morrison, Simon |
Hersteller: | Vintage |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 198 x 129 x 21 mm |
Von/Mit: | Simon Morrison |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.03.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,422 kg |
SIMON MORRISON is a professor of music at Princeton University.
He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books and has written for Time Magazine, the New York Review of Books, and New York Times. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and holds a PhD and an MFA in Music History from Princeton University.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
---|---|
Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780099581789 |
ISBN-10: | 0099581787 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Morrison, Simon |
Hersteller: | Vintage |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 198 x 129 x 21 mm |
Von/Mit: | Simon Morrison |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.03.2014 |
Gewicht: | 0,422 kg |