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'The Lacuna,' by Barbara Kingsolver

THE LACUNA, by Barbara Kingsolver. Harper, 507 pp., $26.99.

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon "Lev" Trotsky. The Mexican painter whose flamboyant art and mangled body still nourish a multimedia industry. The adored husband 21 years her elder, muralist and Mexican national hero. And the man on the lam whom this idealistic pair sheltered under their roof: a slight, bearded, twinkle-eyed Bolshevik....

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