| A Partisan's Daughter Contributor(s): de Bernieres, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307389146 ISBN-13: 9780307389145 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: The intimate new novel by the bestselling author of "Corelli's Mandolin" is a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad. England, late 1970s. Forty-something Chris is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. Roza, in her twenties, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans, has only recently moved to London from Yugoslavia. One evening, Chris mistakes her for a prostitute and propositions her. Instead of being offended, she gets into his car. Over the next months Roza tellsChris stories of her past. She's a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life as she retells it--and Chris is rapt. This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on the seductive power of storytelling. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009504768 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.13" W x 7.9" (0.51 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: England, late 1970s. Forty-something Chris is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. Roza, in her twenties, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans, has only recently moved to London from Yugoslavia. One evening, Chris mistakes her for a prostitute and propositions her. Instead of being offended, she gets into his car. Over the next months Roza tells Chris stories of her past. She's a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life as she retells it-and Chris is rapt. This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on the seductive power of storytelling. |