Chernobyl Strawberries by Vesna Goldsworthy
A captivating account of life as a notable member of the Serbian elite in the 1980s, and then as the wife of a British diplomat and currently a celebrated international scholar with a first novel due from Random House in 2015. A cancer diagnosis, and its unresolved consequences, results in a moving, hilarious, and profound memoir.
'ExceptionalIf there has been a more honest, calm and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it.'--Times Literary Supplement 'Funny, painful, and brilliant - Fantastically well written - I hope that it will soon take its place among the Lolitas of Tehran and the Booksellers of Kabul' Tim Judah, Observer 'Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it' Andrew Taylor, TLS 'Three qualities make Vesna Goldsworthy's memoir stand apart - her honesty, he skill as a writer and the fascinating circumstances of her life. Her ability to find unexpected, subtle connections in the pattern of her own life elevates this absorbing memoir into something extraordinary' Josh Lacey, Guardian 'Engrossing - the work of a fiercely honest and cultivated intelligence' Paul Bailey, Sunday Times
Vesna Goldsworthy is Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University and the author of several widely translated and award-winning volumes. Following Inventing Ruritania, she published a best-selling memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries in 2005, which was serialized in The
Times and read by Goldsworthy herself as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, and a Crashaw Prize winning poetry collection, The Angel of Salonika, one of The Times' Best Poetry Books of 2011.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908524478 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908524472 |
| Title | Chernobyl Strawberries |
| Author | Vesna Goldsworthy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press |
| Year published | 2015-02-19 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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