The red daughter
Schwartz, John Burnham2020
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In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in 1967, arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story. By her side is Peter Horvath, a young lawyer sent by the CIA to smuggle Svetlana into America. She is a contradictory celebrity: charismatic and headstrong, lonely and haunted, excited and alienated by her adopted country's radically different society. Persuading herself that all she yearns for is a simple American life, she attempts to settle into a suburban existence in New Jersey. But when this dream ends in disillusionment, Svetlana reaches out to Peter, the one person who understands how the chains of her past still hold her prisoner. As their relationship changes and deepens, Svetlana's and Peter's private lives cease to be their own.
Main title:
The red daughter / John Burnham Schwartz.
Author:
Schwartz, John Burnham, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2020.
Collation:
268 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Random House, 2019.
ISBN:
9781472155108 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1082644