R70.00
Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself.
In stock
688 pages, Paperback
23x15x3.7cm
This is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator Mc-Carthy.
Born in America and raised in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo – where the Bol-shevik leader, Lev Trotsky, is also being harboured as a political exile – he inadvertently casts his lot with art, communism and revolution.
A compul-sive diarist, he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Trotsky in the midst of the Mexican revolution. A violent upheaval sends him back to America; but political winds toss him be-tween north and south.
The Lacuna is the unforgettable story of a man caught between two worlds. It is both a portrait of the artist—and of art itself.
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