Friends And Heroes :The Balkan Trilogy 3
Friends And Heroes :The Balkan Trilogy 3
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Published:
11 February, 2021
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'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times
'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observer
Athens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young couple are reunited, Guy once again becomes absorbed in his work, leading Harriet to seek the attention of a handsome young officer. But when Greece is defeated and Europe starts to crumble around them, Guy and Harriet are forced to find a new strength amidst the devastation. Manning's exquisite observations on love, marriage and friendship during wartime are brought vibrantly to life.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781786091543 |
| ISBN10 | 1786091542 |
| Number Of Pages | 384 |
| Item Weight | 271 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 23 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Cornerstone |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Magnificent ... full of wit, sharp insight and vivid description. * The Times *
Wonderfully entertaining * Observer *
A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war -- Sarah Waters
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 *
One most salute the brilliance ... the exactness of sights and sounds, the precise touches of light and scent, the gestures and entrances. * Guardian *
A delicate, tough, mesmerising epic that grabs you by the hand and takes you straight into war, flight, and a complex and vulnerable young marriage -- Louisa Young
I shall be surprised, and, I must admit, dismayed if the whole work is not recognized as a major achievement in the English novel since the war. Certainly it is an astonishing recreation. * New York Times *
Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing. * Sunday Telegraph *
An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity. -- Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse
Lush and lyrical - and darkly funny even at its most gut-punching - Olivia Manning's Balkan Trilogy manages to simultaneously be a sweeping panorama of a Europe in crisis and a discomfitingly intimate portrait of a no-less-broken marriage. -- Tara Isabella Burton, author of Social Creature
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Author's Bio
Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, spent much of her youth in Ireland and, as she puts it, had 'the usual Anglo-Irish sense of belonging nowhere'. The daughter of a naval officer, she produced her first novel, The Wind Changes, in 1937. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R.D. Smith, a British Council lec-turer in Bucharest. Her experiences there formed the basis of the work which makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens, she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.