A beautifully wrought and unlikely love story, exploring the power of storytelling

The new audiobook from the acclaimed author of Birds Without Wings and Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad.

Chris is bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a hooker into his car.

Roza is 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 though she's not a hooker, when she's propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway.

Over the next few months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She's a fast-talking Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. And he takes in her tales as if 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?

The deeply moving story of their unlikely love - narrated in the moment and through recollection, each of their voices deftly realized - is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on storytelling: its seductions and powers, and its ultimately unavoidable dangers.

Vorwort
A beautifully wrought and unlikely love story, exploring the power of storytelling

Autorentext
Louis de Bernières' first three novels are The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book Eurasia Region, 1991), Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord (Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Eurasia Region, 1992), and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. He was selected as one of the Granta twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Captain Corelli's Mandolin won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book, 1995. His novel Birds Without Wings was published to great acclaim in 2004.

Klappentext
Unabridged audio edition of De Bernieres's new novel. 5 CDs. Running time: 6hrs.

Zusammenfassung
"This modern day Scheherazade is lent some much-needed charm by the velvety voice of actor Sian Thomas" FT magazine