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The Ice Saints (Apollo Library)

The Ice Saints (Apollo Library)

by Michael Schmidt (Editor), Frank Tuohy (Author), Frank Tuohy (Author), Michael Schmidt (Editor)

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    Paperback 2017

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Synopsis

The drawing-room was entirely English. The Office of Works had provided deep armchairs, a sofa you could have slept on, though of course nobody had ever done so, and a low glass-topped table.

A young English woman arrives in the Polish People's Republic to visit her older sister, who married a Polish soldier after the war, disappearing into a life behind the Iron Curtain. This award-winning novel of the harsh cruelties and deprivations of life in Communist Poland is told with truth, wit and understanding.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Apollo Library
Published: 04 May 2017
ISBN 10: 178497823X
ISBN 13: 9781784978235

Media Reviews
'A masterly novel, at once ferociously funny and compassionately sad in its depiction of the subterfuges and small betrayals by which people struggle to survive in a Communist state' Independent.
Author Bio

John Francis Tuohy (1925-1999) was a novelist and short story writer. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge, he worked for the British Council in a number of academic posts abroad, including Krakow, Poland. The Ice Saints, his third novel, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and James Tait Black Prize.