Description
Edith Tudor-Hart was a Bauhaus-trained photographer, and Ursula Kuczynski a writer and polyglot. Both were immigrant dissidents fighting fascism throughout the turbulent 30s and 40s. They never met, and yet communist agents, radical activists and devoted mothers both, their lives regularly crossed on the leafy streets of Hampstead and in the sophisticatedly bohemian world of the Isokon building - a haven for free-thinking emigres and modernist
marvel that promised a new way of living.
Together but apart, they changed history - one helping form the famous Cambridge Five spy ring, the other handler of the nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs. They were denied the chance to share the dangers they faced, but the secret nature of their work tied them by invisible threads.
Maryam Diener is masterful at the blending of fact and fiction. In Parallel Lives she traces the haunting secrets, traumas and victories that bound these remarkable women. The publication coincides with the 90th anniversary of the Isokon building, and is an informative and powerful summer read from an established author.
About the Author
Maryam Diener was born in Iran and attended the Sorbonne in Paris before receiving her Masters from Columbia University. She is the author of The Moon (1998), Sans te dire adieu (2007) and Beyond Black There is No Colour: The Story of Forough Farrokhzad (Quadrant Books, 2024) and Exquisite Corpse (2021). In 2012 she co-founded Editions Moon Rainbow, a publishing company specialising in limited-edition books on poetry and the visual arts
including There Must Be Someone to Rewrite Love, which features contributions from Bei Dao and Francesco Clemente.
Book Information
ISBN 9781738459841
Author Maryam Diener
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Quadrant Books
Publisher Mereo Books
Weight(grams) 250g
Dimensions(mm) 180mm * 108mm * 10mm
marvel that promised a new way of living.
Together but apart, they changed history - one helping form the famous Cambridge Five spy ring, the other handler of the nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs. They were denied the chance to share the dangers they faced, but the secret nature of their work tied them by invisible threads.
Maryam Diener is masterful at the blending of fact and fiction. In Parallel Lives she traces the haunting secrets, traumas and victories that bound these remarkable women. The publication coincides with the 90th anniversary of the Isokon building, and is an informative and powerful summer read from an established author.
About the Author
Maryam Diener was born in Iran and attended the Sorbonne in Paris before receiving her Masters from Columbia University. She is the author of The Moon (1998), Sans te dire adieu (2007) and Beyond Black There is No Colour: The Story of Forough Farrokhzad (Quadrant Books, 2024) and Exquisite Corpse (2021). In 2012 she co-founded Editions Moon Rainbow, a publishing company specialising in limited-edition books on poetry and the visual arts
including There Must Be Someone to Rewrite Love, which features contributions from Bei Dao and Francesco Clemente.
Book Information
ISBN 9781738459841
Author Maryam Diener
Format Paperback
Page Count 120
Imprint Quadrant Books
Publisher Mereo Books
Weight(grams) 250g
Dimensions(mm) 180mm * 108mm * 10mm
