True Colors - A Novel Into the Hearts of Two Sisters (Part 1 and 2) [17 Audio Cassettes/25.5 Hrs.]

Mortman is a best-selling novelist who manages to combine passion and fashion with the insights and interest of popular art and political history. In her last book, The Wild Rose, she portrayed a concert pianist's rise to fame from the wreckage of cold war Hungary. Here her talented and, of course, beautiful heroine is a Barcelonese painter whose family lives in opposition to Franco's mercurial and ruthless regime. Isabelle de Luna is a veritable princess for her first seven years, but it all comes to a violent end when her mother is raped and murdered and her father is accused of the crime. Little Isabelle actually witnesses the murder, but the killer's face is buried deep in her scarred subconscious. Isabelle grows up in exile in the home of family friends, the Durans, in Santa Fe. Their adopted daughter isn't all that thrilled about acquiring a sister, and the seeds of their destructive and flamboyant rivalry are sown early. Each evolves into a glamorous woman, and each achieves fame. Sleazy Nina becomes a notorious gossip columnist and TV celebrity, while pure and sensitive Isabelle becomes one of the world's most celebrated artists. Differences aside, they are both haunted by their tragic pasts and their inability to find true love.