{"product_id":"the-girl-with-the-leica-based-on-the-true-story-of-the-woman-behind-the-name-robert-capa-9781609455477","title":"The Girl with the Leica: Based on the True Story of the Woman Behind the Name Robert Capa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER The Strega Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAugust 1, 1937, Paris. Taro's twenty-seventh birthday, and her funeral. Friedmann, who would henceforth assume the moniker Robert Capa alone, leads the procession. He taught Taro to use a Leica. Together, they left for the Spanish Civil War to bear witness to fascist war crimes. He is devastated, but there are others, equally bereft, in the procession: Ruth Cerf, Taro's old friend from Leipzig with whom she fled to Paris; Willy Chardack, ex-lover; Georg Kuritzkes, another lover and a key figure in the International Brigades. They have all known a different Gerda, and one who is at times radically at odds with the heroic anti-fascist figure who is being mourned by the multitudes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerda Taro is at the heart of this kaleidoscopic novel but another of its main characters is the era itself, the 1930s, with economic depression, the rise of Nazism, hostility towards refugees in France, the century's ideological warfare, the cultural ferment, and the ascendency of photography as the age's quintessential art form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Girl with the Leica\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for fans of historical fiction centered on extraordinary women's lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Munich in a Polish Jewish family, \u003cb\u003eHelena Janeczek\u003c\/b\u003e has been living in Italy for over thirty years. With \u003ci\u003eThe Girl with the Leica\u003c\/i\u003e she has won the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award, and was a finalist for the Campiello Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Goldstein\u003c\/b\u003e has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante's books, including each of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling installments in Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, the fourth of which, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of the Lost Child\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50474202464530,"sku":"9781609455477","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_30ef0861-a1cc-4567-b802-5481c70d0605.jpg?v=1730214651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-girl-with-the-leica-based-on-the-true-story-of-the-woman-behind-the-name-robert-capa-9781609455477","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}