An entrancing portrait of love in exile, with a twist.
Vesna Goldsworthy comes from Belgrade. She began her writing life as a poet and aged 22 performed her poetry to thirty thousand people at a football stadium. At 24 she moved to the UK and started writing in English, her third language. Her widely-translated books include a prize-winning poetry collection The Angel of Salonika; an internationally bestselling memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries; and the London-based novels Gorsky and Monsieur Ka. A former BBC World Service journalist, she is now an academic and occasional broadcaster.
Goldsworthy is an elegant writer, skilful at building atmosphere.
Her fiction-within-fiction device is clever and intriguing ... the
novel could hardly seem more of the moment
*The Times*
It often takes an emigre to describe a country most clearly, and
Goldsworthy, who was born in Belgrade but has lived in London for
30 years, is proving a most accomplished poet of her adopted city
... A delight
*Daily Mail*
In all three of her books, Goldsworthy has displayed a gift for
creating atmosphere ... One of Goldsworthy’s strengths is the
sensitivity with which she portrays the many marriages in the book
... Much of the pleasure of reading this remarkable novel comes
from its passionate dedication to the power of stories.
*The Guardian*
In this subtle, intelligent novel, Albertine's narration of events
in 1947, as her own story begins to carry reminders of Tolstoy's,
proves poignant and effective
*The Sunday Times*
A beautiful haunting novel… looking at a familiar London through a
frosty, snowy lens. Wonderful
*Caryl Phillips*
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