The Lacuna

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Faber
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 670 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Mexico, 1935. Harrison Shepherd is working in the household of famed muralist Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. Sometimes cook, sometimes secretary, Shepherd is always an observer, recording his experiences in diaries and notebooks. When exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky arrives, Shepherd inadvertently casts in his lot with art and revolution and his aim for an invisible life is thwarted forever.The Lacuna is a gripping story of identity, the connection with our past and the power of words to create or devastate.

ISBN: 9780571252671