Olivia Manning

The Great Fortune (eBook, ePUB)

The Balkan Trilogy 1

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Autumn, 1939. Newly-weds Guy and Harriet Pringle step aboard the train to Bucharest. Guy's lecturing job awaits, alongside friends and the ever-ardent Sophie - but for Harriet, alone and naive, it's a strange new life. As Guy's world collides with that of his new bride, Harriet realises how little she knows the man she has married. Manning's masterpiece, alive with exhilarating characters, is a haunting evocation of young love and the uncertainty of war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448166077
• Artikelnr.: 37905199

Autorenporträt

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'. The daughter of a naval officer, she produced her first novel; The Wind Changes, in 1937. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R.D. Smith, a British Council Lecturer in Bucharest. Her experience 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 charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.