Angelina Beloff, exiliada rusa, pintora, escribe desde la grisura, la pobreza y el frío del París de la primera posguerra a Diego Rivera, su compañero durante diez años, a quien no ha podido seguir en su regreso a México. Angelina escribe cartas amargas que el pintor, ya célebre en su tierra natal, deja sin respuesta. Elena Poniatowska ha recreado, en estas cartas imaginarias, el testimonio entrañable de una artista y amante abandonada, y con ello la saga de los tiempos idos en que los artistas eran gigantes, con todas sus virtudes y defectos. Una breve novela de gran finura.

Angelina Beloff, a Russian exile, painter, writes from the grayness, poverty and cold of postwar Paris to Diego Rivera, her partner for ten years, whom she has not been able to follow on his return to Mexico. Angelina writes bitter letters that the painter, already famous in his native land, leaves unanswered. Elena Poniatowska has recreated, in these imaginary letters, the endearing testimony of an abandoned artist and lover, and with it the saga of the bygone days when artists were giants, with all their virtues and defects. A short novel of great finesse.