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The Balkan Trilogy

The Balkan Trilogy

by OliviaManning (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

    $11.61
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 1040
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Arrow
Published: 19 Nov 1992
ISBN 10: 0099427486
ISBN 13: 9780099427483
Book Overview: One of the finest fictional productions that Britain has seen since the war. - Anthony Burgess

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
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.