Vesna Goldsworthy
Iron Curtain: A Love Story
Iron Curtain: A Love Story
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In Vesna Goldsworthy's novel "Iron Curtain," Milena, a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s, falls in love with Jason, a British poet. They escape to 1980s London, but Milena discovers that Jason's idea of freedom hurts her more. The book explores the failures of family and state and challenges the myths we tell ourselves. It is a sly, elegant human drama full of humor, pathos, and poignancy.
Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 10 February 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
One of the Independent's Best Books of 2022
A book so full of steel and compassion that it stands glitteringly apart
Rachel Cusk
A piercingly evocative East-West love story
The Times
Atmospheric and gloriously vivid
Guardian
Two worlds on the brink of change in a love story doomed to disaster
Milena is a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s.
She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable.
When she meets Jason, a confident British poet, Milena is appalled by his political naivety and his poor choice of footwear.
Still, they fall into bed together, and before long Milena is secretly planning to escape to Britain.
1980s London defies her privileged expectations. The rented flat is grim and the food is disgusting, but she is with the man she loves, and there are no hidden cameras to record her every move. But then Milena discovers that Jason's idea of freedom hurts even more...
With sharp wit and tender precision, Vesna Goldsworthy unpicks the failures of family and state.
Iron Curtain is a sly, elegant human drama that challenges the myths we tell ourselves.
A pacy page-turner... Full of humour, pathos and poignancy
Irish Independent
Vesna Goldsworthy's finely wrought third novel explodes into life... Potent
Spectator
A wonderful, perfectly-pitched novel: full of delightful intrigue and wry insight about the human predicament and its unique tensions
William Boyd
Weight: 454g
Dimension: 146 x 222 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784744588
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