The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait -- Carlos Fuentes, Hardcover Fiction - Psychological Suspense and the Gotham Book Prize

and the Gotham Book Prize - Longlisted for The Women's Prize - Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick - New York Times Editors' Choice

and The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Best Book of the Year

and artists whose enduring contributions dovetail with its radical vision

Both strategies enabled it to avoid colonization--and to retain its traditions and way of life

With a personal and sometimes irreverent tone

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait -- Carlos Fuentes, Hardcover Fiction - Psychological Suspense and the Gotham Book PrizeAn intimate self portrait of one of the most renowned Mexican artists of the twentieth century, this beautiful book is "a visual document, engaging the eye with a volcanic profusion of penned and painted imagery" (New York Times). Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last 10 years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in