Alexandra Lapierre - Between Love and Honor

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French novelist and biographer Alexandra Lapierre is a graduate of the Sorbonne and the University of Southern California. Her bestselling books have been translated worldwide, including two titles in English, Fanny Stevenson and Artemisia , and have garnered her numerous awards, including the best book of the year by the readers of Elle magazine for her biography of American pioneer Fanny Stevenson. She was voted Woman of Culture by the city of Rome, Italy, and has been nominated Chevalier in the “Order of Arts and Letters” by the French government. Her most recent work, L’Excessive , was an immediate best seller in Europe and is being developed for a television series. Alexandra Lapierre lives in Paris.

Jane Lizop is a writer, journalist, and translator with a background in modern European history. She lives in Paris.

AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH:

Artemisia

Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny

Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850–1950 (in collaboration with Christel Mouchard)

AVAILABLE IN FRENCH:

La Lionne du Boulevard

Un homme fatal

L’absent

Artemisia

Fanny Stevenson

Le salon des petites vertus

Le voleur d’éternité

Elles ont conquis le monde. Les grandes aventurières, 1850–1950 (in collaboration with Christel Mouchard)

Tout l’honneur des Hommes

L’excessive

“This is a beautiful book based on strong research, illuminated with very successful novelized touches.”

“Built as an adventure novel, but based on rigorous work of research, this book tells the true story of a noble and powerful man torn between two cultures and two loyalties… The result is a fascinating epic.”

“This powerful novel is the result of colossal research serving an exalted plot.”

“Those who love sagas will have everything they can hope for! One cannot help but think about Alexandre Dumas, and also—and mostly—about the movie this fabulous story should become!”

“With this novel written the bit between her teeth, Alexandra Lapierre—sovereign and galloping—proves to be the true riding heiress of Joseph Kessel.”

“Alexandra Lapierre’s book reads like an adventure story, an epic, a universal tale.”

“Though it looks like a novel, Alexandra Lapierre’s book is a true and exemplary piece of history.”

“A gripping historical novel written by an authentic pro.”

“You are overwhelmed by the power of the writing.”

“A novel in the grand style of Alexandre Dumas, where the magic of the story blends with love, war, religion… A total success!”

“The shattered destiny of this Chechnyan prince is worth all the screenplays in Hollywood! Everything here is true, from the daggers, the horses, the diamonds… to the blood, the tears… With a light hand, Alexandra Lapierre achieves the union of history and epic… she offers us this rebel, his love and his honor, heartrending certainly, but glorious in the end.”

Text copyright © 2008 by Alexandra Lapierre

English translation copyright © 2012 by Jane Lizop

Alexandra Lapierre photograph © 2012 Getty Images

Alexandra Lapierre photograph by Jean Luc Nyssen © 2010 Gamma Agency

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Between Love and Honor was first published in 2008 by Plon as Tout l’honneur des Hommes: Dans la Russie des Tsars, le destin du fils de l’imam de Tchétchénie . Translated from French by Jane Lizop. Published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2012.

Cover portrait of Jamal Eddin by Andrea Fortina, private collection, France, reprinted here by permission of the artist.

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