Stalin's Daughter. The Extraordinary And Tumultuous Life Of Svetlana Alliluyeva

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 741 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a tear/repair to top of spine.

Publishers Description: Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent 'Superbly well told' Sunday Times Who was Svetlana Alliluyeva? A little girl, her father's only daughter, his "little sparrow"; instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother, who shot herself soon after. An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed and her first love exiled. A woman who tore through relationships with men, joined and abandoned various religions, and became the most famous defector to the United States. The victim of an inescapable truth: "You are Stalin's daughter. . . . You can't live your own life. You can't live any life. You exist only in reference to a name."

ISBN: 9780008135072