Stalins Daughter

Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness Simon Sebag Montefiore A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel Independent Superbly well told Sunday Times Who was Svetlana Alliluyeva? A little girl, her fathers only daughter, his little sparrow; instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother, who shot herself soon after. An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed and her first love exiled. A woman who tore through relationships with men, joined and abandoned various religions, and became the most famous defector to the United States. The victim of an inescapable truth: You are Stalins daughter. . . . You cant live your own life. You cant live any life. You exist only in reference to a name.