A Partisan's Daughter - Rilegato

De Bernieres, Louis

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ISBN 10: 0307396916 ISBN 13: 9780307396914

Casa editrice: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

Set in North London during the Winter of Discontent, A Partisan’s Daughter features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Serbian woman who has recently moved to London.

While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris is captivated by a young woman on a street corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee.

His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world – from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito’s Partisans through her journey to England and on to her more recent colourful and dangerous past in London.

A Partisan’s Daughter is about the power of storytelling. It is also a beautifully wrought and unlikely love story which is both compelling and moving to read. Here is another wonderful novel from the author of the bestselling Birds Without Wings and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

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Praise for A Partisan's Daughter:
“In characteristic de Bernières fashion, the novel . . . wins us over. . . . As a writer, de Bernières is truly international in his scope, inhabiting one country after another with convincing detail and authority. . . . [A Partisan’s Daughter] rarely strikes a false note, and it contains lessons about love and regret and seizing the moment. . . . It’s a wise and moving novel, perfectly accomplished. It shows that no life is ordinary. It shines fresh light on the nature of love.” –The Guardian

“Louis de Bernières delights in taking peripheral episodes of European history and viewing them on a human scale, moulding political events to the shape of ordinary lives. . . . Like Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, A Partisan’s Daughter is a retrospective lament for all that could have been, had one moment in the past turned out differently. . . . It is also a story about the power of storytelling.” –The Observer

“[A] Corellian mix of European idyll and brutal violence . . . compelling.” –Evening Standard

"This is a silk stocking of a novel: fragile, light, of little practical purpose - and yet possessed of surprising tensile strength. De Bernières' mellifluent, clear prose slips through the reader's mind with efficient ease, and even at its most dramatically jarring, you never need to come up for air. This is de Bernières' skill, and it is a considerable one. The world is full of ponderous, self-important novelists; making it look this simple is a real art." - Times UK

“It’s a glory. . . . Like Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, A Partisan's Daughter is a novel about missed opportunities and wrong paths taken, tracing the way in which one false move can alter the history of a life. . . . It’s a wise and moving novel, perfectly accomplished. It shows that no life is ordinary. It shines fresh light on the nature of love.” –The Guardian

Praise for Birds Without Wings:
“De Bernières has unquestionably crafted a masterpiece.” - The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax)

“This is a magnificent, poetic, colossal novel, filled with wry, poignant stories that overlap like sheets on a windy day. . . . It is, in every sense, a sublime book.” - The Irish Times

L'autore:

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent novel is Birds Without Wings.

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• Editore: Random House of Canada Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307396916
• ISBN 13: 9780307396914
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 212