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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