Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo

by Ken Kuenster

Three generations of Frida Kahlos, all fictious, who follow the inspiration of the great Mexican painter who died nearly a half a century ago.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887391990
• ISBN13: 9780887391996
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An Unexpected Surprise

I stumbled upon this book while at a small bookstore in San Diego and the cover caught my eye. I had recently been getting interested in Frida so I bought the book because it looked like a nice distraction from Hayden Herrerra's biography of Kahlo. Was I surprised! This 119 page novel was an absolute pleasure to read. I knew absolutely nothing about it before reading it, but I was hooked from the first page. It tells the story of a California artist in the mid 90's who claims to be Frida Kahlo's grand-daughter (keep in mind this is fiction.) She gets a mysterious letter from an art dealer named Orlando. Intrigued and suspicious about the letter, she decides to visit his mansion a few months later. Upon meeting him she realizes that he is her frog-prince, in other words, her Diego Rivera. They soon fall in love and a whole inter-twined plot of enigmatic to creepy characters who are all connected by the mansion. This novel is intelligent, suspensefull and just when you think you have figured out the next thing about to happen, Kuenster throws a hard curve ball at you (I dropped the book more than a few times.) Kuenster's matter-of-fact narrative is very readable and I highly reccomend it to anyone looking for a short and creative novel. It will definately surprise you too.