This novel about the brief affair between Leon Trotsky and the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is also about the communist movement in the early decades of the 20th century, revealing the humanity behind the figures who spearheaded the movement. IN THE CASA AZUL was a finalist for the Orange Prize in Britain, where it was originally published.
'The blue rectangle which enclosed me for a time and made me feel safe. The blue embrace...For six weeks, at the age of fifty-nine, one last dance with youth. It stays with me, the memory of her, and the view from that room in her house.' Hounded from country to country by Stalin's agents, Leon Trotsky finally finds refuge in Mexico as the guest ...
Three strangers meet in Bhopal, India: Francoise, an Australian photographer; Naga, a Tibetan refugee, and Arkay, a Scottish alcoholic drawn to Buddhism. Their stories are prompted by the photographs which Francoise assembles into an album - the "Red Book" - as testament to their time together. The photographs are witness to the traces they have ...
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