The red daughter : a novel

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Label

The red daughter : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

John Burnham Schwartz

Creator

• Schwartz, John Burnham

Author

• Schwartz, John Burnham

Subject

• Biographical fiction
• Children of heads of state -- Fiction
• Defectors -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Moscow (Russia) -- Fiction
• Allilueva, Svetlana, 1926-2011 -- Fiction
• Travel -- Fiction
• United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Arizona -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel is inspired by the true story of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Allilyueva, the forty-one-year-old daughter of the notorious tyrannical leader of the USSR, 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 lawyer in his mid-thirties who is sent by the CIA to escort Svetlana to America. Rootless, lonely, and bewildered by her adopted country's radically different society, Svetlana takes refuge in Arizona with the widow of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, makes a hasty marriage, and has a child. Floundering, she reaches out to Peter, her first connection in America and, it seems, the only person she can genuinely count on. When their relationship becomes more than just professional, it unfolds under the eyes of her CIA minders, and Svetlana and Peter's private lives are no longer their own. The author's father was in fact the young lawyer who escorted the real Svetlana to the United States. Based on his father's reminiscences as well as his own extensive research into Svetlana's life, John Burnham Schwartz recreates this dramatic story of a woman's search for a new life and a place to belong, in the evocative and imaginative prose that have made him a critically acclaimed, bestselling author of literary and historical fiction

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3569.C5658

LC item number

R43 2019

Literary form

novels