The Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning

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'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid;

The Balkan Trilogy Summary

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

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'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

'One of the finest fictional productions that Britain has seen since the war' - Anthony Burgess

Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the steady advance of the German army. The Balkan Trilogy is the remarkable portrait of their marriage, a haunting evocation of a vanished way of life and a delightfully ironic comedy of manners in a breaking world.

The Balkan Trilogy Reviews

Magnificent ... full of wit, sharp insight and vivid description. * The Times *
A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of war -- Sarah Waters
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 *
Wonderfully entertaining * Observer *
One must salute the brilliance ... the exactness of sights and sounds, the precise touches of light and scent, the gestures and entrances * Guardian *

About Olivia Manning

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'. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R. D. Smith, a British Council lecturer in Bucharest. Her experiences 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 Jerusalem, where her husband was put in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.

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Sku

GOR011127969

ISBN 13

9780099427483

ISBN 10

B0092I0Q96

Title

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

Author

Olivia Manning

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Cornerstone

Year published

19921119

Number of pages

1040

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N/A

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