Winner of the Strega prize, Italy’s equivalent of the Booker, this tantalising biographical novel tells the story of the German-Jewish war photographer Gerda Taro, who died, aged 26, while covering the Spanish Civil War.
We see Gerda via the memories of three real-life figures: Ruth, an old friend from Germany, with whom she fled to Paris after Hitler took power; an ex-lover, Willy; and another lover, Georg, a medic who fought Franco in Spain.
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