The Balkan Trilogy
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Krátky popis
'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her
pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' Anthony Burgess
'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 'A fantastically tart and readable
account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah
Waters The Balkan Trilogy is the story of a marriage and of a war,
a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning
brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under
political and military siege to vibrant life. At the heart of the
trilogy are newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle, who arrive in
Bucharest - the so-called Paris of the East - in the autumn of
1939, just weeks after the German invasion of Poland. Guy's
lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie
- but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. Other
surprises follow: Romania joins the Axis, and before long German
soldiers overrun the capital. The Pringles flee south to Greece,
part of a group of refugees made up of White Russians, journalists,
con artists, and dignitaries. In Athens, however, the couple will
face a new challenge of their own...
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