About the book: 2014 / Simon Morrison, musicologist, professor at Princeton University, wrote a book about Lina Prokofieva, née Caroline Codina, “mysterious, irresistible, arrogant, obnoxious , flirtatious, capricious, stubborn and... courageous.” Based on a huge number of documents, the author recreated the life of a beautiful, intelligent, educated woman, a singer who performed under the pseudonym Lina Lyubera, the wife of the greatest composer of the 20th century, Sergei Prokofiev, whose marriage cost her eight years in the camps.