A biographic novel that captures the tempestuous and moving life of
the poet Marina Tsvetaeva. The life of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
coincided with turbulent years in Russian history. She was an
eminent Russian poet and a passionate lover involved with several
men at the same time, including Rilke, who chose Lou Andreas-Salome
over her, and Pasternak, who married someone else, but protected
her until her death. Her life included many trials such as her
poverty during the grueling Russian civil war, her young daughter's
death from hunger in an orphanage, and the death of her husband,
who fought against the Communist regime and was executed by the
Soviet state. Rejected by official poets, then by the wealthy
Russian diaspora in France, she finally returned to her country to
end her wandering life. She hanged herself from a rope in an attic
from which she could see the field where she had dug with bare
hands for potatoes abandoned by local farmers. A poet-martyr of the
Stalinist era-buried in an unmarked plot in the cemetery of
Yelabuga-Tsvetaeva is brought to life in this poetic biographical
novel by celebrated Lebanese author Venus Khoury-Ghata.
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