However, the tone shifts dramatically when the family returns to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Caught in the machinery of , Lina is eventually abandoned by Prokofiev for a younger woman and later arrested on false charges of espionage, leading to years of survival in a Siberian labor camp. Key Themes & Features
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The narrative follows Lina, nicknamed "Linette" or "Avecilla" (Little Bird) by Prokofiev, from their meeting in New York in 1918. As the couple moves through the high-society circles of Europe and America, they rub shoulders with icons like Coco Chanel, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso. However, the tone shifts dramatically when the family
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: Monforte meticulously reconstructs the atmosphere of 20th-century artistic hubs and the suffocating paranoia of the USSR.
