预售 Killing Gilda

【内容简介】

A beautiful nineteen-year-old named Gilda becomes the mistress of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. She dreams of becoming his wife. The narrator, in love with Gilda, follows clues about her death two years after the affair.

During an assassination attempt on the Shah, he gets shot on the steps of the Marble Palace. As he puts it, "I took a bullet for my king up the ass and got a jesters seat, the best seat, to watch the fall of the Persian Empire."

Killing Gilda is infused with intrigue, but at its heart, its a love story that follows the best traditions of classics like The Beauty and the Beast. We enter the rarified atmosphere of the court, the young womans life, and the reasons for her death. We follow the characters through the Paris of Madame Claude, the Shahs ski resort at St. Moritz, and Doctor Pitanguys plastic surgery clinic in Baden Baden.

The story, with its scheming characters and rare glimpses into Shahs private life, eschews easy labels. The Shahs sexual adventurism didnt stop his liberal policies for womens rights.

Killing Gilda is the story of a woman trapped in a gilded cage. And its a compelling portrait of a royal dynasty whose fall has profoundly impacted the modern world. The recent womens protests in Iran will heighten interest in the book.