by Alexandra Lapierre · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081490338
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«Belle Greene» is the historical novel by Alexandra Lapierre, published by Flammarion in paperback (544 pages, in French).
In 1900s New York, a young woman passionate about rare books adopts the name Belle da Costa Greene and rises to direct the library of tycoon J. P. Morgan. In a racist America, she hides that she is African American and the daughter of a Black activist, torn between her history and the society that admires her.
Winner of the Giovanni Comisso Biography Prize in 2022, the novel is based on three years of documentary research.
For readers of historical fiction interested in identity, racism, and the world of books in 1900s America.
Alexandra Lapierre is a French author of novels, biographies, and short stories.
