The Red Daughter

Running from her father s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the infamous Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, 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 young lawyer sent by the CIA to smuggle Svetlana into America.She is a contradictory celebrity charismatic and headstrong, lonely and haunted, excited and alienated by her adopted country s radically different society Persuading herself that all she yearns for is a simple American life, she attempts to settle into a suburban existence in Princeton, New Jersey But one day an invitation from the widow of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright arrives, and Svetlana impulsively joins her cultlike community at Taliesin West When this dream ends in disillusionment, Svetlana reaches out to Peter, the one person who understands how the chains of her past still hold her prisoner Their relationship changes and deepens, moving from America to England to the Soviet Union and back again, unfolding under the eyes of her CIA minders, and Svetlana s and Peter s private lives are no longer their own.Novelist John Burnham Schwartz s father was in fact the young lawyer who escorted Svetlana Alliluyeva to the United States Drawing upon private papers and years of extensive research, Schwartz imaginatively re creates the story of an extraordinary, troubled woman s search for a new life and a place to belong, in the powerful, evocative prose that has made him an acclaimed author of literary and historical fiction. Free Read [ The Red Daughter ] by [ John Burnham Schwartz ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I am a huge fan of historical fiction, especially when it s about a time, place or person I know little to nothing about The Red Daughter covers Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, so it fit the bill The book purports to be a collection of excerpts from her private journals, letters and Editor s Notes, written by Peter Horvath, the lawyer who helped her reach the US The chapters acting as her journal entries look back at her life starting with her memories of her mother s I am a huge fan of historical fiction, especially when it s about a time, place or person I know little to nothing about The Red Daughter covers Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, so it fit the bill The b...A cold historical novel about a very unhappy woman, The Red Daughter didn t work for me I can barely muster up the energy to review it I realize that authors of historical fiction play fast and loose with the facts for the sake of narrative, but this author s monkeying around with the facts was too fast and too loose and didn t enhan...3.25 starsI tend to find anything to do with the history of the Cold War era and Eastern Europe interesting fiction and non fiction The Red Daughter is an odd mixture of both I read it with interest but I m still trying to figure out what to make of it The book is described as a novel, but it is about Svetlana Alliluyeva, who was Joseph Stalin s daughter, focusing on the time in her life after she immigrated to the United States In real life, the author s father was an American lawyer who 3.25 starsI tend to find anything to do with the history of the Cold War era and Eastern Europe interesting fiction and non fiction The Red Daughter is an odd mixture of both I read it with in...The Red Daughter was a disappointment I love Schwartz s previous novels especially The Commoner so I was really excited to read his take on the life of Joseph Stalin s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, who left the USSR in the late 1960s, defecting to the United States Svetlana was a fascinating and extremely complicated woman so historical fiction about her Yes, please But it s not historical fiction if you basically toss out all of the history it s just fiction And while there s The Red Daughter was a disappointment I love Schwartz s previous novels especially The Commoner so I was really excited to read his take on the life of Joseph Stalin s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, who left the USSR in the late 1960s, defecting to the United States Svetlana was a fascinating and extremely complicated woman so historical fiction about her Yes, please But it s not historical fiction if you basically toss out all of the history it s just fiction And while ...Svetlana Alliluyeva is the only daughter of the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin Stalin was a brutal leader and millions of his own people died during his horrific reign He was a cold, insensitive man But he loved his little girl and called her my little housekeeper Then Svetlana grew up and fell in love with a young man who her father didn t like He cruelly had the man arrested and deported to Siberia Thus began the estrangement between Svetlana and her father.In 1967, Svetlana decided to Svetlana Alliluyeva is the only daughter of the Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin Stalin was a brutal leader and millions of his own people died during his horrific reign He was a cold, insensitive man But he loved his little girl and called her my little housekeeper Then Svetlana grew up and fell in love with a young man who her f...The Red Daughter has no doubt been a huge labour of love for the author, and it really shows in this exceptional hybrid biography fiction It is primarily a cleverly disguised account of one fearless woman and the life and times in which she lived Svetlana Alliluyeva, notorious tyrannical leader Joseph Stalin s only daughter, managed to embarrass the Soviet Union by defecting in 1967 and becoming a naturalised citizen of their sworn enemy the United States This book mainly follows the The Red Daughter has no doubt been a huge labour of love for the author, and it really shows in this exceptional hybrid biography fiction It is primarily a cleverly disguised account of one fearless woman and the life and times in which she lived Svetlana Alliluyeva, notorious tyrannical leader Joseph Stalin s only daughter, managed to embarrass the Soviet ...This historical novel looks at the life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin The author uses an unpublished memoir as the device to tell her story, which is really a loosely disguised biography This memoir is left to Peter Horvath, who was sent to Switzerland to escort Svetlana to the United States, when she defected Although Stalin is, obviously, the reason why Svetlana is of historical interest, the character herself remembers her mother as central to her childhood This historical novel looks at the life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin The author uses an unpublished memoir as the device to tell her story, which is really a loosely disguised biography This memoir is left to Peter Horvath, who was sent to Switzerland to escort Svetlana to the United States, when she defected Although Stalin is, obviously, the reason why Svetlana is of historical interest, the character herself remembers her mother as central to her childhood She was, of course, the most famous Cold War defector and it is interesting to read of the horror of the airline pilot when he discovers she is aboard, for fear that the Russians will do something to prevent them arriving in the US.However, arrive in America, Svetlana does albeit without her two children, who she leaves behind...I struggle with this review simply because I fear my words won t adequately capture the beauty of this book I found The Red Daughter to be an incredible portrayal of the historical figure, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin s daughter For me, the beauty of this book came through the author s ability to capture the pain, oppressiveness, and violence of Russia through his rich but somewhat stark writing The author is not writing a novel strictly about a time in history but rather focusing on I struggle with this review simply because I fear my words won t adequately capture the beauty of this book I found The Red Daughter to be an incredible portrayal of the historical figure, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin s daughter For me, the beauty of this book came through the author s ability to capture the pain, oppressiveness, and violence of Russia through his rich but somewhat ...I doubt the name Svetlana Alliluyeva means anything to most of us today, but Joseph Stalin s daughter was a political hot potato when she defected from Mother Russia during the Cold War Whether you know of her, and regardless of your knowledge of the Cold War and Russian history, you will tear through this novelization of Svetlana s life Mr Schwartz writes of ...via my blog She survived her life, which maybe under the circumstances is maybe sort of heroic John Burnham Schwartz takes liberty with his fictions, imagining the life of Josef Stalin s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, as she defects from the communist state to America in 1967, leaving behind her son and daughter, carrying with her the stain of her father s infamy Always thereafter to be a foreigner in every sense of the word having left her homeland, a via my blog She survived her life, which maybe under the circumstances is maybe sort of heroic John Burnham Schwartz takes liberty with his fictions, imagining the life of Josef Stalin s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, as she defects from the communist state to America in 1967, leaving behind her son and daughter, carrying with her the stain of her father s infamy Always there...

• English
• 10 January 2018
John Burnham Schwartz
• Hardcover
• 288 pages
• 1400068460
• John Burnham Schwartz
• The Red Daughter