The Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning, Jane Smiley (Introduction)
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- Pub. Date: January 12, 2010
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- Pub. Date: January 12, 2010
- Publisher: New York Review of Books
- Format: Paperback, 928pp
- Sales Rank: 66,442
- ISBN-13: 9781590173312
- ISBN: 1590173317
Synopsis
Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the advance of the German army. This classic work of post-war fiction was made into a magnificent BBC television series starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.
Author Bio:Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, England and spent much of her youth in Ireland. She married just before World War II and went to live in Bucharest with her husband. Her experience there formed the basis of the work that makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens, she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up in Jeruslam where her husband worked at the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.
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Olivia Manning (1908—1980) wrote more than twelve novels, including her celebrated The Fortunes of War series. In addition to her novels, Manning wrote essays and criticism, history, a screenplay, and a book about cats. NYRB Classics published Manning’s School for Love in 2009.
Rachel Cusk is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction. Saving Agnes won the 1993 Whitbread First Novel Award and Arlington Park was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. In 2003 Cusk was chosen by Granta magazine as one of their "Best Young British Novelists". Her latest book is a memoir, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy.
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