Balkan Trilogy
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British writer Olivia Manning arrived in the Balkans with her husband at the beginning of the Second World War and did not return to England until 1945, moving from Romania to Greece, and then from Greece to Egypt. Her Balkan Trilogy is dedicated to these wanderings, which Anthony Burgess called the best testimony to the war in British fiction. Manning did not visit battlefields or hospitals, did not fight against regimes or enemy invaders. She tried to build an ordinary life in a crumbling world, without succumbing to panic. This is also true for her heroine Harriet - a woman who prefers to remain silent and observe rather than act. In the "Balkan Trilogy," readers are presented with a panorama of a specific secular society through the prism of Harriet's thoughts and feelings - detached aristocrats, powerless diplomats, bankrupt bankers, bewildered journalists, and simply immigrants who have managed to briefly escape the war and are always ready to start over again.
Author:
Author:Olivia Manning
Cover:
Cover:softcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Fiction
Dimensions:
Dimensions:23.5x16.5x4.5 cm
Series:
Series:The Big Idea. Introduction to the 21st Century
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91103-676-8
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