Summary
Paula Byrne: Mirrors, Mirrors
The story of Marlene Dietrich's life from the other side of the mirror. Tell me, tell me, my mirror, who is the most beautiful beauty in the world? Madhu is the most beautiful woman in the world. The film director discovered Mada in a Berlin cabaret in the roaring twenties of the 20th century and offered her the glamor of Los Angeles. There he becomes a superstar of the big screen. Important men and women parade in her bed. Hitler wants Madu to return to Germany and become a star of the Third Reich, but she loves her life as a Hollywood sweetheart. The price of beauty is always high for those who possess it and those in its shadow. Madu's daughter knows what it means to be ordinary next to a radiant, golden mother - a woman who broke her, but from whom she cannot escape. A touching novel about mothers and daughters that simultaneously tells the story of the war of time against beauty and the unbearable pain when a star begins to fade.
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