num_pages: 336
description: Milena Urbanska is a red princess living in a Soviet satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable. When she meets Jason a confident but politically naive British poet they fall into bed together. Before long Milena is planning her escape. She follows Jason to London where shes shocked to find herself living in bohemian poverty. The rented apartment is dingy the food disgusting and Jasons family withholding but at least there are no hidden cameras recording her every move. As she adjusts to her new life however Milena discovers the dark side of Jasons idea of freedom.With cool wit and tender precision Vesna Goldsworthy delivers a razor-sharp vision of two worlds on the brink of change amidst the failures of family and state. Iron Curtain is a sly elegant comedy of manners that challenges the myths we tell ourselves.
language: English
title: Iron Curtain: A Love Story
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company