Mrs Mao

22 hrs. 39 min.

Language Russian

Author Gavin McCrea

Narrator Olga Bogdanova

Description

What is it like to be Mao Zedong’s wife, to manage the Red Guards, and to determine the direction of art for an entire country? What is it like to be a communist and an avant-garde artist in 1960s Europe? What is it like to search for your path when you don’t suit the people around you—or even yourself? Three main heroines. Three parallel stories about how to be a woman, how not to get lost in the shadow of talented yet heartless men—how to stage a performance that convinces others of the rightness of your ideals.

“It’s immoral—yet then all the great deeds that remained in history and weren’t washed away by its current flow are also immoral. If such a need arose, she would kill not only her sister—but herself too. It was a conflict between two ‘right’ sides, where both sides had to be ready for death.”