Fear of mirrors

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

The story of a family whose life mirrors the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.With the fall of Communism, East German dissident Vlady Meyer’s life begins to fall apart. As the German nation unifies, his wife splits up with him. He loses his university job now that the times have turned against his Marxist views. He wants to tell his alienated son, Karl, what his family’s long and passionate involvement with communism really meant, but he can’t. Vlady’s story is interwoven with that of Ludwik, Kim Philby’s recruiter, and his four comrades, brilliant Galician secret agents working for the Fourth Department of the Red Army.Thoughtful and intimate, Fear of Mirrors unfolds an expansive plot that touches on the greatest political upheavals of the twentieth century. Its protagonist captures the hopes once roused by the Bolshevik Revolution and the hard realities that followed; Vlady Meyer is a mirror reflecting impeccably the intellectual milieu of an incomparable period.

Participantes

Autor: Tariq Ali

Autor

TARIQ ALI

Tariq Ali é jornalista, escritor, historiador, cineasta e ativista político. Nascido em 1943 no Paquistão, vive na Inglaterra, onde colabora com diversos periódicos e é um dos editores da revista New Left Review. É especialista em política internacional e tem se destacado com análises sobre o Oriente Médio e a América Latina. Publicou, entre outros, Bush na Babilônia, Medo de espelhos, Redenção, Sombras da romãzeira, O livro de Saladino, Mulher de pedra, Um sultão em Palermo e O poder das barricadas.