内容简介
Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writer's Prize - Best First Book in South East Asia and South Pacific Region.
Hounded from country to country by Stalin's GPU agents, in January 1937 Leon Trotsky finally finds refuge in Mexico. There he encounters the fire and splendour of the artist Frida Kahlo, who with her husband Diego Rivera welcomes Trotsky and his wife Natalia into The Blue House at Coyoacan.
Moves gracefully through the private histories of love, despair and deception ... brimming with energy and conviction?—Literary Review
Reading this novel is like peering into a kaleidoscope ... the writing is vibrant and vivid, illuminated by flashes of brilliance?—Sunday Telegraph.
Brilliantly reconstructs the atmosphere of Trotsky's house, his circle of friends and, inparticular, the place of the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in his entourage?—Sunday Business Post.
Hounded from country to country by Stalin's GPU agents, in January 1937 Leon Trotsky finally finds refuge in Mexico. There he encounters the fire and splendour of the artist Frida Kahlo, who with her husband Diego Rivera welcomes Trotsky and his wife Natalia into The Blue House at Coyoacan.
Moves gracefully through the private histories of love, despair and deception ... brimming with energy and conviction?—Literary Review
Reading this novel is like peering into a kaleidoscope ... the writing is vibrant and vivid, illuminated by flashes of brilliance?—Sunday Telegraph.
Brilliantly reconstructs the atmosphere of Trotsky's house, his circle of friends and, inparticular, the place of the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in his entourage?—Sunday Business Post.