# The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev

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- Authors: [Simon Morrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-morrison)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9958-178-9
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2014-03-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week Lina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel, but when she reached the courtyard she was arrested for treason. First enraptured by the young pianist and rising star, Serge Prokofiev, during a courtship in Brooklyn, then abandoned by him in Moscow, Lina survived one of the darkest periods in Soviet history – enduring eight years in the Gulag after she received that fateful telephone call. Unfolding with the intrigue of a spy novel, The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev traces the largely untold story of a remarkable woman who gave up her career, her country and her freedom for the brilliant man she married.