Parallel lives a love story from a lost continent
"Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet Union, and the even stranger world o...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
2025.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Larissa: Background, birth and childhood, 1931-1941
- Francis: Background, birth and education, 1928-1946
- Larissa: Siege, evacuation, return, 1941-1944
- Francis: Paris, Army, Cambridge, 1946-1952
- Larissa: School, academy, hermitage, 1944-1962
- Francis: Italy, 1952-1962
- Larissa and the Biennale, 1962
- Francis: London and Cambridge, 1953-1962
- Meeting, 1962
- Encounters, 1963-1965
- Departure and arrival, 1965
- Finale.
