A Partisan's Daughter
By Louis de BernieresFrom the acclaimed author of CorelliÂs Mandolin and Birds Without Wings (Âde Bernières has reached heights that few modern novelists ever attempt ÂThe Washington Post Book World) comes an intimate new novel, a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad.
HeÂs Chris: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, heÂs a stranger inside the youth culture of London in the late 1970s, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a hooker into his car.
SheÂs Roza: Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of TitoÂs partisans. SheÂs in her twenties but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And although sheÂs not a hooker, when sheÂs propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway.
Over the next months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. SheÂs a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. And he takes in her tales as if they were oxygen in an otherwise airless world. But is Roza telling the truth? Does Chris hear the stories through the filter of his own need? Does it even matter?
This deeply moving novel of their unlikely loveÂnarrated both in the moment and in recollection, each of their voices deftly realizedÂis also a brilliantly subtle commentary on storytelling: its seductions and powers, and its ultimately unavoidable dangers.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 185 pages
- English
- 030726887X
- 9780307268877
About Louis de Bernieres
novelist louis de bernières was born in london in 1954. he joined the army at 18 but left after spending four months at sandhurst. after graduating Read More about Louis de Bernieres
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