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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

By Iain Pears
Hardcover
$29.99
By Iain Pears
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An extraordinary love story of two unlikely figures played out against the backdrop of the Cold War.

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 of a certain variety of the English elite. It seeks to show how leaving the Soviet Union was a sa...

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HistoryCurrent Affairs & PoliticsRussian & Soviet HistoryDiplomacy & International RelationsUnited States History1917-1991 (Soviet Union) - History20th Century United States History - 1945 to 2000Soviet History - Political AspectsInternational Relations - General & Miscellaneous20th Century American History - Cold War