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050	0	0	_aPR6104.E53 _bI5 2002
082	1		_aFIC DEL _2
100	1		_aDelahunt, Meaghan
245	1	0	_aIn the Casa Azul : _ba novel of revolution and betrayal _c/ Meaghan Delahunt.
250			_a1st U.S. ed.
260			_aNew York _b: St. Martin's Press _c, 2002.
300			_a308 p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_aOriginally published title: In the blue house. London : Bloomsbury, 2001.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520	3		_aPursued from country to country by Stalin's GPU agents, Leon Trotsky finds refuge in Mexico City in 1937. There he encounters the fire and splendor of the artist Frida Kahlo who, with her husband Diego Rivera, welcomes Trotsky and his wife Natalia into their home, the Casa Azul. Meaghan Delahunt's breathtaking first novel explores those extraordinary years in Mexico, but also spreads before the reader a panorama of Russian history, revolution, and upheaval throughout the first half of the twentieth century. We hear from Stalin's desolate young wife, and Trotsky's Ukrainian Jewish father, baffled by the dissolution of his own estate and the rise of his son, and from Trotsky himself, still smarting from his brief love affair with the mesmerizing Frida. Their voices mingle with the tales of the lesser known who, in their way, have also created history: the Mexican artist who foretells Trotsky's death; a Bolshevik engineer surviving the chill of the Stalinist regime; and the bodyguard who is unable to prevent Trotsky's assassination. In the Casa Azul insightfully examines politics and art, as well as disillusionment and loss in the service of high ideals.
546			_aEnglish.
586			_aWinner of the Saltire Society First Book Award.
600	0	4	_aTrotsky, Leon _d(1879 - 1940 -) _vFiction
600	0	4	_aKahlo, Frida _d(, 1907-1954) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aRevolutionaries _v--Fiction
650			_aWomen painters _v-Fiction
651		4	_aSoviet Union _x-History _y-1925-1953 _v--Fiction
651		4	_aCoyoacán (Mexico) - _vFiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
655		4	_aDiary fiction
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