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‘Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness’ Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel’ Independent

‘Superbly well told’ Sunday Times

Who was Svetlana Alliluyeva?

A little girl, her father’s only daughter, his “little sparrow”; instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother, who shot herself soon after.

An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed and her first love exiled.

A woman who tore through relationships with men, joined and abandoned various religions, and became the most famous defector to the United States.

The victim of an inescapable truth: “You are Stalin’s daughter. . . . You can’t live your own life. You can’t live any life. You exist only in reference to a name.”

Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

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    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    Publication Date: 30/06/2016
    ISBN13: 9780007491131, 978-0007491131
    ISBN10: 0007491131

    Number of Pages: 624

    Non Fiction , Biography

    Description

    ‘Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness’ Simon Sebag Montefiore

    ‘A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel’ Independent

    ‘Superbly well told’ Sunday Times

    Who was Svetlana Alliluyeva?

    A little girl, her father’s only daughter, his “little sparrow”; instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother, who shot herself soon after.

    An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed and her first love exiled.

    A woman who tore through relationships with men, joined and abandoned various religions, and became the most famous defector to the United States.

    The victim of an inescapable truth: “You are Stalin’s daughter. . . . You can’t live your own life. You can’t live any life. You exist only in reference to a name.”

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