Ivo y Jorge

Ivo Livi, better known as Yves Montand, and Jorge Semprún, a writer linked to the testimony of the Nazi genocide, shared the greatness and disappointments of a generation marked red hot by the messianic aspiration of communism. The hectic lives of both are mixed with the tragedies of their time: from the Spanish Civil War to the cabarets of the Occupation, from the Red Square to the White House, from the maquis and the Resistance to Hollywood, from Buchenwald to Madrid. The book takes us into the whirlwinds of history, in the company of Simone Signoret and Hemingway, Edith Piaf and J.F. Kennedy, Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe, Khrushchev and Costa Gavras. Two lives that span the entire 20th century.