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This story begins with a chance photograph taken at an artistic party in interwar Berlin, where the life trajectories of three women - Marlene Dietrich, Anna Mae Wong and Leni Riefenstahl - first intersected. The first of them is a German woman who fled her native country during the Nazi rule and became an American symbol of freedom. The second is an American woman of Chinese descent, a stranger in America and in China, whose acting career is a relentless overcoming of cultural stereotypes. The third is a German woman, the author of recognised film masterpieces, who buried her talent by putting it at the service of Adolf Hitler.

The three stars of cinema, an art that embodies the long XX century, are so bright and different. Their light reveals an entire era full of desperate creativity, the struggle for a dream, immeasurable pain and inevitable loneliness. The author shades the fates of real people with the stories of fictional but realistic characters, creating a multi-level and multi-voiced plot canvas that unfolds widely in time and space.

«The Light of a Distant Star» — is the first novel by Amanda Lee Kow, an English-speaking writer from Singapore, which, thanks to the author's talent and skill, has received high critical acclaim and will appeal to fans of dramatic and fictional biographical prose.

Published with the support of the National Art Council Singapore.