A review by kmarion
Waiting for Robert Capa by Adriana V. López, Susana Fortes

5.0

This book is maybe not a 5-star book objectively - it is not perfect of course - but it gave me so much joy and feeling, I love Gerda and Capa so much, and it gave so much atmosphere and familiar nostalgia of '30s Paris and Spain, and did it so well, so sensitively that I cannot give it anything else than 5 stars. I just love this era, the history, and revolutionary times and escalation, and I love to get to know more and more about it. And I have to say it has a very strange narrative structure of journals, nonfiction bits, and hardcore romance bits with the hardcore war around, that it could even be terrible, but actually I loved it. I was afraid that it will be too cheesy or over-romanticized, but it was not. I loved it, lived with it, and cried. A lot :)
I have to know so much more about this woman! I already love Robert Capa (it does no harm that he is Hungarian), but I was always interested in this small, brave woman as well. Now I am even more interested, I will research a lot more about her.