by Louis de Bernières · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099520283
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«A Partisan's Daughter» is a romance novel by Louis de Bernières, published by Vintage in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In 1970s London, Chris, a married and disillusioned Englishman, meets Roza, a young Yugoslav woman who has just arrived. The daughter of a Tito partisan, Roza tells him about her turbulent past and reveals herself as a storyteller who saves herself by telling her life. A novel about improbable love, immigration and the power of stories.
Finalist for the Costa Novel Award 2008. The work was originally published in 2008 and this Vintage edition is from 2009.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary romance, as well as for book clubs looking for stories with historical and emotional depth.
Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into at least 11 languages and is an international best-seller.
