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From your acclaimed writer of Corelli’s Mandolin and Birds Without Wings (“de Bernières has already reached heights that few modern novelists ever attempt” —The Washington Post Book World) comes a romantic new novel, a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad.
He’s Chris: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he’s a stranger inside the youth culture of London in the late 1970s, a stranger to himself on the night time he invites a hooker into his car.
She’s Roza: Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito’s partisans. She’s in her twenties but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And although she’s not really a hooker, when she’s propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway.
Over the next months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She’s a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. And he takes in her tales as though they were oxygen in an otherwise airless world. But is Roza telling the truth? Does Chris hear the stories through the filter of his own need? Does it even matter?
This deeply moving novel with their unlikely love—narrated both in as soon as and in recollection, each with their voices deftly realized—is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on storytelling: its seductions and powers, and its own ultimately unavoidable dangers.
