The Balkan Trilogy
The Balkan Trilogy
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___________ 'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid;
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The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
___________ '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 of the finest fictional productions that Britain has seen since the war' - Anthony Burgess Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the steady advance of the German army. The Balkan Trilogy is the remarkable portrait of their marriage, a haunting evocation of a vanished way of life and a delightfully ironic comedy of manners in a breaking world.
Magnificent.. full of wit, sharp insight and vivid description. * The Times *
A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of 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 *
Wonderfully entertaining * Observer *
One must salute the brilliance ... the exactness of sights and sounds, the precise touches of light and scent, the gestures and entrances * Guardian *
A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of 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 *
Wonderfully entertaining * Observer *
One must salute the brilliance ... the exactness of sights and sounds, the precise touches of light and scent, the gestures and entrances * Guardian *
Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, spent much of her youth in Ireland and, as she put it, had 'the usual Anglo-Irish sense of belonging nowhere'. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R. D. Smith, a British Council lecturer 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 Jerusalem, where her husband was put in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099427483 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099427486 |
| Title | The Balkan Trilogy |
| Author | Olivia Manning |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 1992-11-19 |
| Number of pages | 1040 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |