A partisan's daughter
First published 1998
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England, late 1970s. Forty-something Chris is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. Roza, in her twenties, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans, has only recently moved to London from Yugoslavia. One evening, Chris mistakes her for a prostitute and propositions her.
Instead of being offended, she gets into his car. Over the next months Roza tells Chris stories of her past. She's a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life as she retells it--and Chris is rapt.
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This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on the seductive power of storytelling. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Louis de Bernières
- First published
- 1998
- Edition
- Een partizanendochter
- Publisher
- De Arbeiderspers
- Language
- DUT
- ISBN-13
- 9789029565769