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The Ice Saints

Frank Tuohy author Neal Ascherson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:4th May '17

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An award-winning novel depicting life in Poland behind the Iron Curtain.

The drawing-room was entirely English. The Office of Works had provided deep armchairs, a sofa you could have slept on, though of course nobody had ever done so, and a low glass-topped table. A young English woman arrives in the Polish People's Republic to visit her older sister, who married a Polish soldier after the war, disappearing into a life behind the Iron Curtain. This award-winning novel of the harsh cruelties and deprivations of life in Communist Poland is told with truth, wit and understanding.

A masterly novel, at once ferociously funny and compassionately sad in its depiction of the subterfuges and small betrayals by which people struggle to survive in a Communist state * Independent *

  • Winner of James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 1964
  • Winner of Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1965

ISBN: 9781784978235

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

256 pages