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A Partisan's Daughter

by Louis de Bernieres
Sian Thomas
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From the acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin and Birds Without Wings comes an intimate new novel, a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad.
He’s Chris: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he’s a stranger inside the youth culture of London in the late 1970s, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a hooker into his car.
She’s Roza: Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito’s partisans. She’s in her twenties but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And although she’s not a hooker, when she’s propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway.
Over the next months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She’s a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. And he takes in her tales as if they were oxygen in an otherwise airless world. But is Roza telling the truth? Does Chris hear the stories through the filter of his own need? Does it even matter?
This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love–narrated both in the moment and in recollection, each of their voices deftly realized–is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on storytelling: its seductions and powers, and its ultimately unavoidable dangers.

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  • Release date

    October 7, 2008

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415954454
      • File size: 170330 KB
      • Duration: 05:54:51

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      To call A PARTISAN'S DAUGHTER simply a love story might discourage the wider interest it deserves. It is, rather, a meditation on the search for love in a weary world--graphic, profound, affecting, yet so plainly written and transparently narrated that the characters live and breathe and feel, and persist in memory. The book's language and structure are ideally suited to audio. The work is made up entirely of stories within stories, smaller in scope and far more intimate than the author's well-known bestseller, CORELLI'S MANDOLIN Spoken by a man and a woman, alternating between the two fine voices of Sian Thomas and Jeff Rawle, the work strikes the listener as a spontaneous outpouring of two lives. One can't help becoming emotionally involved. Too soon over, its subtle mysteries laid bare, this haunting recording invites the listener to start again. If only the characters could. J.L.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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