The Weeping and the Laughter
by Noel Barber
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This story describes the dramatic lives of Prince Dmitri Korolev and his family caught up in the upheavals of European revolution and war. They flee Russia in 1919, escape to Switzerland and then Paris, but, with the Second World War, they come under further pressure from the Communist police. The author worked for many years in Paris as a foreign correspondent and wrote several novels including "Tanamera", "A Farewell to France", "A Woman of Cairo" and "The Other Side of Paradise".Tags
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Another enjoyable read by this author, it gives an incite into the atrocities those faced with exile endured, and illustrates the trials and tribulations of building a new life in another country.
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- The Weeping and the Laughter
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