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Sat 12 Dec 2009Rivera, Kahlo, Trotsky and him
FICTION: KATY HAYESreviews The LacunaBy Barbara Kingsolver Faber Faber, 507pp. £18.99
‘MAY YOU LIVE in interesting times” is the barbed Chinese charm, and this novel certainly does. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel for 10 years, moves from revolutionary 1930s Mexico, and the unruly artistic household of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, to bourgeois segregationist postwar America and the dead hand of the McCarthy era, with its whispering campaigns and compliant press.
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