Title: A partisan's daughter
First published: 2008
Description: England, late 1970s. Forty-something Chris is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. Roza, in her twenties, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans, has only recently moved to London from Yugoslavia. One evening, Chris mistakes her for a prostitute and propositions her. Instead of being offended, she gets into his car. Over the next months Roza tells Chris stories of her past. She's a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life as she retells it--and Chris is rapt. This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on the seductive power of storytelling.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Nineteen seventies, Storytelling, Serbs, Middle-aged men, Young women, Literature, Serbs in fiction, Young women in fiction, Nineteen seventies in fiction, Storytelling in fiction, Middle-aged men in fiction, Sales personnel, Manners and customs, Fiction, romance, historical, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Young women, fiction, Friendship, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, New York Times reviewed, Married people, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, general
Places: England, London, London (England)
LC classification: PR6054.E132 P37 2008