A young English woman arrives in the Polish People's Republic to visit her older sister, who married a Polish soldier after the war and disappeared into a life behind the Iron Curtain.
Tuohy's award-winning novel of the the harsh cruelties and day-to-day deprivations of life in Communist Poland is told with truth, wit and understanding.
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John Francis Tuohy (1925-1999) was a novelist and short story writer. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge, he worked for the British Council in a number of academic posts abroad, including Krakow, Poland. The Ice Saints, his third novel, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and James Tait Black Prize.
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