ALL THE BEAUTIFUL TRAITORS

Ravenscar Romances

De: Vivienne Scarrow

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Mexico City, 1938. The most dangerous city on earth has never been more beautiful.

Esperanza Villanueva has built a careful life inside the most extraordinary household in the western hemisphere, translating the correspondence of Frida Kahlo, managing the affairs of Leon Trotsky's household, moving between languages and worlds with the precision of someone who has learned that invisibility is its own kind of power.

Nikolai Volkov has come from Moscow to watch. He knows who she is before she speaks. She does not yet know what he is.

By the time she works it out, she has already decided.

A love story set against the most politically explosive moment of the twentieth century, All the Beautiful Traitors asks how much truth a person can bear, and what they will do with it when they have it.

The thread was intact. That was the thing she was most afraid of. And here it is.

The beautiful descriptions of Mexico and the colours and markets.

The historical details are correct and the story is well woven into the events. Occasionally the narrative mispronounces the Spanish but nothing majorly off putting. A really interesting story.