Frida - The award-winning novel about the colourful and captivating life of Frida Kahlo

'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle

'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia

'Claire Berest writes as captivatingly and vividly as Frida Kahlo painted' Paris Match

WINNER OF ELLE FRANCE'S GRAND PRIX DES LECTRICES

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Frida doesn't speak, she yells. She curses like a sailor and demonstrates with the communists on the streets of Mexico City. She likes drinking tequila, putting flowers in her hair, talking crudely about sex, and parties that wake the dead.

Even when her body is wracked with pain, she paints.

Frida suffered two terrible accidents in her life, one in which a streetcar knocked her down - the other accident was Diego Rivera. Her greatest vice. The love of her life. The most famous artist in Mexico. A man who is as hard to live with, as he is to be without.

Translated into English for the first time, Claire Berest's award-winning novel is a striking fictional imagining of the vibrant life of one of the world's most enigmatic and beloved artists: Frida Kahlo.

About the author

Claire Berest

Product details

• Authors: Claire Berest
• Assisted by: Smee Stephanie (Translation)
• Publisher: Headline Book
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.04.2026
• EAN: 9781035426782
• ISBN: 978-1-0354-2678-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Romance, Mexico, FICTION / Romance / General, The arts: general issues, 20th Century, ART / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, FICTION / World Literature / Mexico, The arts: general topics, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General