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Synopsis
The new novel from the acclaimed author of Birds Without Wings and Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad.
Chris is bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a hooker into his car.
Roza is Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans. She's in her twenties, but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And though she's not a hooker, when she's propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway.
Over the next few months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She's a fast-talking 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 love - narrated in the moment and through recollection, each of their voices deftly realised - is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on storytelling: its seductions and powers, and its ultimately unavoidable dangers.
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`It's a wise and moving novel, perfectly accomplished.' -- The Guardian
`Louis de Bernieres ... strips down the language in this novel to its essential plot' -- Financial Times
`The success of the novel is in its art of covert narration... the novel is intensely moving and has a measured momentum' -- Newindpress
`You'll soon be as captivated by Roza's colourful tale as Chris is'
-- SHE
`a bittersweet love story' -- Tatler
`by the end I was impressed, moved and touched' -- The Spectator
'De Bernieres is a skilful writer, poetic but unforced' -- Daily Telegraph
'De Bernière's mellifluent, clear prose slips through the reader's mind with efficient ease'
-- The Times
'The author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin gives us and bittersweet love story set in Seventies London' -- Tatler
`a bitter-sweet story of missed opportunities'
-- The Good Book Guide
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A beautifully wrought and unlikely love story, exploring the power of storytelling
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846551412
- ISBN 13 9781846551413
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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