Gillian Slovo

Ice Road

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Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for The Orange Prize and highly praised on hardback publication. Set in Lenigrad of the 1930s, ICE ROAD is a compelling and passionate story about ordinary people - Boris, Natasha, Irina - caught up in history

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Virago Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 128mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781844080595
• ISBN-10: 1844080595
• Artikelnr.: 13359145

Autorenporträt

Born in South Africa, Gillian Slovo came with her family to Britain in 1964. She has written nine novels, one of which, Red Dust has been filmed with Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Her first play, Guantanamo, played in London's West End and off-Broadway in New York.

Rezensionen

I grew to love Slovo's powerful narrator, the redoubtable cleaning lady Irina Davydovna . . . Slovo has produced a novel which is demanding, brave and bold . . . Many writers have used the brutal effects of the Seige of Leningrad to explore courage, betrayal and survival, but Slovo adds something important.'- Charlie Lee-Potter, Observer 'This is a novel that explores the motivation and consequences of political events on ordinary lives . . . Ice Road brilliantly depicts, from the emotional inside, the most politically disastrous assassination in Russian history, the murder of Kirov . . .