A partisan's daughter
by Louis de Bernières
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While driving through Archway in the course of his job as a medical rep, Chris, an unhappily-married, middle-aged Englishman, is captivated by a young Serbian woman on a street corner. Clumsily, he engages her in conversation, and he secures an invitation to return one day for a coffee. His visits become more frequent and Roza starts to tell him the story of her life, drawing him increasingly into her world, from her childhood as a daughter of one of Tito's partisans, through her journey to England and on to her more recent colourful and dangerous past in London.
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Fiction, Social life and customs, Nineteen seventies, Storytelling, Serbs, Middle-aged men, Young women, Literature, Serbs in fiction, Young women in fiction, Nineteen seventies in fiction, Storytelling in fiction, Middle-aged men in fiction, Sales personnel, Manners and customs, Fiction, romance, historical, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Young women, fiction, Friendship, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, New York Times reviewed, Married people, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, generalPlaces
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A partisan's daughter
2009, Vintage Canada
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Originally published: London: Harvill Secker.
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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. 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.
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