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A Partisan's Daughter - Louis de Bernieres


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A Partisan's Daughter - Louis de Bernieres

 
Description: ISBN 1846551412 / Author: Louis De Bernieres / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... They form a curious attachment and during Chris' frequent visits, Rosa spends her time smoking filthy cigarettes in her ... more

 ... equally filthy basement telling Chris stories (of dubious veracity) of her life, her sexual awakening and development, and her journey towards becoming the person he knows. Chris, whose interest in Roza is always explicitly sexual despite the feelings he eventually develops towards her, is a docile audience sharing little of his own life with her largely because he has so little to share. The poignancy of his stories is all the greater because of this and I felt equal waves of compassion and pity towards this quite unr...more

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aljwoods
Premium Review A Partisan's Daughter - Louis de Bernieres: A true and honest love story. (466 words)
by - written on 16/06/09 (Very useful, 10 readings)
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Louis de Berniers never fails to move me and while this is not his best work it is remarkable in its ability to truly understand what People are like. It's a baffling journey through the unlikely relationship struck up between a sad, lonely, middle aged man, Chris, and a sad, lonely young woman, Roza, who have been brought together in the most unlikely fashion. Chris, who is apparently not the kind of man who picks girls up, on impulse and thinking that Roza, a young Yugoslav girl living in Archway, is a prostitute (which indeed she once was) clumsily attempts to proposition her. They form a curious attachment and during Chris' frequent visits, Rosa spends ...  Read the complete review

fizzywizzy
Crowned Review Tales from the time of Tito (1262 words)
by - written on 26/01/09 (Very useful, 198 readings)
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Stuck in a boring and loveless marriage to a wife he now calls "The Great White Loaf", medical rep, Chris, finally decides - after years spent considering it - to pick up a prostitute. Driving around North London one night he spots Roza ands pulls up along side the pavement. Roza isn't a working girl, though, but something about Chris and his sincere apology makes her get in the car anyway and ask Chris to drive her home. Touched by Chris's embarrassment Roza decides that he's not like other men and as she gets out of the car she makes an open invitation for Chris to drop by for coffee, but not before telling him that he couldn't have afforded her anyway - when ...  Read the complete review

 

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