EAN: 9781526609021

DELAYED RAYS OF A STAR - AMANDA LEE KOE TASCHEN...

CHOSEN AS ONE OF 2019'S MOST ANTICIPATED TITLES FOR BY ELLE  THILLIST  USA TODAY  LITHUB 
KIRKUS AND LA TIMES    'Ambitious and dazzling ... entertaining and thought-provoking too'
Daily Mail    'Impressive' The Times    'Voraciously intelligent  heartrending ... Amanda Lee
Koe is a brilliant writer' Garth Greenwell   ________________   When a photographer captures
Marlene Dietrich  Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl in one frame at a party in Berlin in 1928
no one realizes the extent to which their lives will reflect the tumultuous decades that
follow.   Marlene crosses the Atlantic to find fame in Hollywood  the town that eats out of the
palm of her hand till her wrinkles begin to show. After establishing her position as a
filmmaker  Leni watches her fame turn to notoriety following the defeat of Nazi Germany. In 90
per cent of the films she appears in  the side characters played by Anna May must die so the
white male lead can be returned to his white paramour on the screen. In the murky world these
women navigate  their choices will be held up to the test of time. And the real question is 
how much has anything changed?  This fierce and exquisite debut about womanhood  ambition  and
art  played out against the shifting political tides of the twentieth century  introduces a
mesmerizing new literary talent for our times.

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