A Partisan's Daughter
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  • Published: 2 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099520283
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $50.00
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A Partisan's Daughter

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A beautifully wrought and unlikely love story, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award: 'Sublimely funny and moving...by the time I'd finished this sleek little novel I'd laughed out loud numerous times and, eventually, cried.' Independent


A beautiful and unlikely love story about what unites us from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage.
He's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a prostitute into his car.
Roza has recently moved to London from eastern Europe. She's in her twenties, but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And though she's not a prostitute, when she's propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway.

Over the next few months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She's a fast-talking 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 it even matter?

'Sublimely funny and moving’ Independent
  • Published: 2 March 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099520283
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $50.00
Categories:

About the author

Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

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So Much Life Left Over
The Autumn of the Ace
Light Over Liskeard
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Praise for A Partisan's Daughter

It's a glory...intensely moving...It's a wise and moving novel, perfectly accomplished. It shows that no life is ordinary. It shines fresh light on the nature of love

Guardian

De Bernieres is a skilful writer, poetic but unforced, who can soothe you like a masseur, telling well-oiled stories of past excitements, and then just when you are drifting off, dexterously tweak a pressure point

Daily Telegraph

This is a silk stocking of a novel: fragile, light - and yet possessed of surprising tensile strength...making it look this simple is a real art

The Times

A triumph - a finely executed little masterpiece

Daily Mirror

Sublimely funny and moving...by the time I'd finished this sleek little novel I'd laughed out loud numerous times and, eventually, cried. That's as true a testimony to a book's loveliness as I know

Independent

A striking and wise novel, deceptively slight yet emotionally profound

New Statesman

Attractive and completely compelling

Daily Mail

A beautifully written and compelling story

Sunday Express

De Bernière's mellifluent, clear prose slips through the reader's mind with efficient ease

The Times

By the end I was impressed, moved and touched

Spectator

A bittersweet love story

Tatler

You'll soon be as captivated by Roza's colourful tale as Chris is

SHE

A bitter-sweet story of missed opportunities

Good Book Guide