The Balkan Trilogy

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The Balkan Trilogy
122,00 lei

Categorii: Neclasificat, Necatalogate

Limba: Engleza

Data publicării: 2021

Editura: Cornerstone

Tip copertă: Paperback

Nr Pag: 1040

ISBN: 9781786091567

Dimensiuni: l: 13cm | H: 19.8cm | 4.3cm | 703g

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The Balkan Trilogy
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'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess

'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do these things so elegantly is no small achievement' Sunday Times

'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters

The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life.

At the heart of the trilogy are newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle, who arrive in Bucharest - the so-called Paris of the East - in the autumn of 1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. Other surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece, part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists, con artists, and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will face a new challenge of their own...

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