Partisan's Daughter

Louis Bernieres

RRP: £16.99

Publisher: HARVILL SECKER

Publication Date : 06/03/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

From the author of the bestselling "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" and "Birds Without Wings", this is a beautifully wrought and unlikely love story, exploring the power of storytelling. Set in North London during the Winter of Discontent, it features the relationship between Chris, an unhappily married, middle-aged Englishman and Roza, a young Serbian woman who's recently moved to England's capital. De Bernieres's backlist is also reissued this month. 'Louis de Bernieres is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh.' A.S. Byatt

Publisher's description:

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. Though she's not a hooker she gets into his car anyway.

ISBN: 9781846551413