Parallel Lives
By Maryam Diener
Category Literary Fiction, War, Espionage, Spies
About Parallel Lives
Edith Tudor-Hart was a Bauhaus-trained photographer, and Ursula Kuczynski was 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 émigrés 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.
About Maryam Diener
Maryam Diener was born in Iran and attended the Sorbonne in Paris before receiving her Master’s 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 (Quartet Books, 2020). In 2012 she co-founded Éditions 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. Exquisite Corpse was published in 2021.
Published: 20 June 2024 Pages: 200 ISBN: 978-1-7384598-4-1 Size: 5’’ x 8’’ / 12.7cm x 20cm Price: £9.99 Format: Paperback
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