Rosemary Sullivan
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Harper
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English
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"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but...
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"As a poet and writer, [Rosemary Sullivan] knows that life is lived not as theory but as practice, that . . . you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their stories." - Margaret Atwood
Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to "meet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness."
And what a fascinating...
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"Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941. . . . A moving tale of great sacrifice in tumultuous times." - Publishers Weekly
Paris 1940. Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the conquering Third Reich, live in daily fear of arrest, deportation, and death. Their only salvation...
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Más de 30 millones de personas han leído la historia de Ana Frank, la niña de trece años que se escondió con su familia en Ámsterdam durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y que fue descubierta por los nazis y enviada a un campo de concentración; donde murió. Pero a pesar de todos los artículos, libros, obras de teatro y novelas dedicadas al tema, ninguno ha explicado de manera concluyente cómo los Frank y otras cuatro personas lograron vivir...