Gillian Slovo

Ice Road

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Loyalties, love, and family ties are tested to the limit in one of the most devastating moments of human history: the siege of Leningrad during World War II.

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Set amid the tumult of the German invasion

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9780393327205
• ISBN-10: 0393327205
• Artikelnr.: 22339322

Autorenporträt

Gillian Slovo, author of the novel Red Dust, now a feature film, and co-author of the play Guantánamo, as well as a memoir and nine other novels, lives in London.

Rezensionen

I grew to love Slovo's powerful narrator, the redoubtable cleaning lady Irina Davydovna . . . Slovo has produced a novel which is demanding, brave and bold . . . Many writers have used the brutal effects of the Seige of Leningrad to explore courage, betrayal and survival, but Slovo adds something important.'- Charlie Lee-Potter, Observer 'This is a novel that explores the motivation and consequences of political events on ordinary lives . . . Ice Road brilliantly depicts, from the emotional inside, the most politically disastrous assassination in Russian history, the murder of Kirov . . .