WINNER The Strega Prize 
Gerda 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. 
August 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. 
Gerda 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. 
The Girl with the Leica is a must-read for fans of historical fiction centered on extraordinary women’s lives.

The Girl with the Leica: Based on the true story of the woman behind the name Robert Capa

Literature & Fiction

JANECZEK, HELENA

Literary

Europa Editions

The Girl with the Leica

Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Das Mädchen mit der Leica

Berlin Verlag

La noia amb la Leica: Traducció d'Oriol Ponsatí

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Edicions 62

Encuadernación: Rústica El 1 de agosto de 1937, un desfile lleno de banderas rojas cruza París: es el cortejo fúnebre que sigue a Gerda Taro (Stuttgart, 1910-El Escorial, 1937, y llamada en realidad Gerta Pohorylle), la primera fotorreportera muerta

La chica de la Leica

Genre Fiction

Tusquets Editores S.A.

La ragazza con la Leica

Contemporary

Guanda

Le rondini di Montecassino

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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