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Iron Curtain: A Love Story
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‘A piercingly evocative East-West love story’ The TimesThis is a story of East and West. A story of love, betrayal, and lost illusions…The end of the Cold War seems unimaginable for Milena, a Red Princess trapped in a lifetime of limitless luxury.Yet when she meets Jason, a confident British poet, it’s not long before she’s secretly planning her escape to Britain.1980s London defies her privileged expectations. And when she discovers Jason’s concept of freedom confronts her deepest-held beliefs, the very ideas of family and state come into question…’A wonderful, perfectly-pitched novel: full of delightful intrigue and wry insight about the human predicament and its unique tensions’ William Boyd’Witty, poignant and full of surprises – every detail of this cross-cultural story of love and disillusionment rings true’ Clare Chambers
Additional information
| Weight | 0.269 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 336 |
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| Year Published | 2023-3-9 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1529115299 |
| About The Author | Vesna Goldsworthy comes from Belgrade. She began her writing life as a poet and aged 22 performed her poetry to thirty thousand people at a football stadium. At 24 she moved to the UK and started writing in English, her third language. Her widely-translated books include a prize-winning poetry collection The Angel of Salonika; an internationally bestselling memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries; and the London-based novels Gorsky and Monsieur Ka. A former BBC World Service journalist, she is now an academic and occasional broadcaster. |
A poignant, bittersweet love story played out across the east-west divide, it challenges set ideas about loyalty, freedom and ideology |
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| Other text | Superb… The divided continent has been at the heart of countless novels over the decades, but few can have been as cleverly crafted or better told than Vesna Goldsworthy's Iron Curtain… Brilliantly written |
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