by Marek Halter · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221123904
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«L'inconnue de Birobidjan» is the historical novel by Marek Halter, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (435 pages, in French).
In 1950, in New York, actress Maria Apron is interrogated by the McCarthy commission, accused of espionage and murder. To save herself, she tells her story like Scheherazade: her youth in the Moscow theatre, her relationship with Stalin, her refuge in Birobidjan (the Jewish autonomous region of Siberia) and her time in the Gulag before reaching the United States.
Published in French on 26 January 2012; the cover presents it as a «roman».
For readers of historical fiction interested in Stalinism, the Gulag, Yiddish theatre and McCarthy-era America.
Polish and French novelist (born 1936)
