The first wife of the great Russian composer Lina Kodina-Prokofiev lived a long, almost a century-long life. It contained twenty years of living with Prokofiev in America, Europe, and then in the Soviet Union, communicating with Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Horowitz and Toscanini, Diaghilev and Balmont, Picasso and Matisse, Meyerhold and Eisenstein… She had experienced the collapse of her family, arrest, prison, and Soviet camps. She was an outstanding person, worthy of her brilliant husband. However, we didn't know anything about her until very recent years: Soviet censorship had deleted Lina from Prokofiev's life and from history. The book by Valentina Chamberjee, who knew the entire Prokofiev family well, is a documentary novel based on previously unpublished archival materials.