However, the tone shifts dramatically when the family returns to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Caught in the machinery of , Lina is eventually abandoned by Prokofiev for a younger woman and later arrested on false charges of espionage, leading to years of survival in a Siberian labor camp. Key Themes & Features
: A spy thriller based on the life of Africa de las Heras. Postales del Este : A moving account set in Auschwitz. Amazon.com: Reyes Monforte: Books
(A Russian Passion) is a sweeping historical novel by Reyes Monforte that tells the dramatic, true-life story of Lina Codina , the Madrid-born singer who became the wife and muse of the legendary Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev .
: At its heart, the novel is a tribute to Lina's endurance and her unwavering dignity in the face of betrayal and political persecution.
Winner of the in 2015, the book explores a life of extreme contrasts—from the glitz of the Roaring Twenties in Paris and New York to the brutal reality of the Soviet Gulag. Plot Overview
: Monforte meticulously reconstructs the atmosphere of 20th-century artistic hubs and the suffocating paranoia of the USSR.