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The Walls Came Down

The Walls Came Down

by EwaDodd (Author)

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    Paperback 2018

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Synopsis

A young boy goes missing during a workers' strike in 1980s Communist Poland, unravelling a chain of events which will touch people across decades and continents. Joanna, a young journalist in Warsaw, is still looking for her brother, who's been missing for over twenty years. Matty, a high-flying London city financier is struggling with relationship problems and unexplained panic attacks. And in Chicago, an old man is slowly dying in a nursing home, losing his battle with liver cancer. What connects them? As the mystery begins to unravel, the world of the three protagonists is turned upside down. But can they find each other before time runs out? A poignant historical novel about loss and self-discovery told with compassion and unflinching honesty.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Aurora Metro Press
Published: 01 Feb 2018
ISBN 10: 1911501151
ISBN 13: 9781911501152
Book Overview: Shortlisted for the 4th Virginia Prize for Fiction, The Walls Came Down is Dodd's second novel. She was also shortlisted for her first novel, Leap.

Media Reviews
The Walls Came Down is the stunning debut novel from Ewa Dodd... Expertly written, the characters are well rounded... The poignancy of the story is extremely powerful, and left me with a warm feeling in my heart. Definitely a page turner. White Shadow in the Basement The Walls Came Down is a page-turner; an engaging and fast-paced story of a child disappearance that spans countries, systems and human frailties... Well written, The Walls Came Down is a gripping debut novel that brings another author to the excellent company of Polish-English writers such as Anya Lipska and Anna Taborska dark horror storytelling. Katarzyna Zechenter, a poet, the author of In the Shadow of the Tree and a lecturer at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies The Walls Came Down is a tense and moving tale of love and loss that grips the reader from start to finish. Shifting between contemporary London and Chicago and the Solidarity strikes of 1988, this compelling story shows us how a momentary act of selfishness can ruin several lives. It is also a reminder that the collapse of communism started not in Germany or in the Soviet Union but in the shipyards and mines of Poland, where the workers faced down a dictatorship that claimed to rule in their name, just as the people of Leipzig later would in 1989. Fiona Rintoul, journalist and author of the prize-winning The Leipzig Affair
Author Bio
One of a new generation of Polish-British authors inspired by her experience of growing up with dual cultures. The daughter of a bookseller, Ewa Dodd has been writing since she was young - starting small with short self-illustrated books for children. More recently, she has delved into novel-writing, and The Walls Came Down is her second novel, for which she was shortlisted for the Virginia Prize for Fiction. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing Course at City University and lives in Highbury, north London with her husband.