Red Love

"Red Love," a tragicomic masterpiece, is based on the Rosenberg case, the most notorious Soviet espionage trial of the 20th century. David Evanier, winner of the Aga Khan Fiction Prize and a one-time insider into American Communism, writes with satiric bite and deep humanity. "Red Love' assumes what many books inspired by the Rosenberg case have labored to deny: the guilt of the Rosenbergs. Evanier interviewed many of the key figures in the case, including other members of the Rosenberg spy ring, members of Julius Rosenberg's family, and the FBI agents that apprehended the Rosenbergs. "Written in a brisk, slangy style reminiscent of John Dos Passos' "U.S.A" and the early novels of Saul Bellow," said Entertainment Weekly, "Evanier's novel is a tragicomedy of good intentions gone mad." Kirkus Reviews calls it "irreverent, unflinching and almost disgracefully entertaining." Lucy S. Dawidowicz, author of "The War Against the Jews," wrote "This is a novel that represents life and is true to history, combining imagination with the documentary record, written with bite and black humor, tempered by compassion for the betrayed sacrifices, the lives lost."