A partisan's daughter

Description:

England, late 1970s. Forty-something Chris is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. Roza, in her twenties, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans, has only recently moved to London from Yugoslavia. One evening, Chris mistakes her for a prostitute and propositions her. Instead of being offended, she gets into his car. Over the next months Roza tells Chris stories of her past. She's a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life as she retells it--and Chris is rapt. This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on the seductive power of storytelling.From the Trade Paperback edition.

subjects: Fiction,  Social life and customs,  Nineteen seventies,  Storytelling,  Serbs,  Middle-aged men,  Young women,  Literature,  Serbs in fiction,  Young women in fiction,  Nineteen seventies in fiction,  Storytelling in fiction,  Middle-aged men in fiction,  Sales personnel,  Manners and customs,  Fiction, romance, historical,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Young women, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  London (england), fiction,  Fiction, romance, historical, general,  New York Times reviewed,  Married people, fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  Fiction, general

Places: England,  London,  London (England)