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Item Details
Title:
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VIRGINIA
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By: |
Jens Christian Grondahl, Anne Born (Trans) |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1841954101 |
ISBN 13: |
9781841954103 |
Publisher: |
CANONGATE BOOKS LTD |
Pub. date: |
15 June, 2003 |
Edition: |
Main |
Pages: |
128 |
Translated from: |
Danish |
Description: |
It is 1942 and Denmark is occupied by German troops. A young woman is invited to spend the summer with people she barely knows in a cottage on the North Sea coast. There she meets two people who will affect her entire life: a fourteen-year-old boy who is the nephew of her hosts, and an English airman who is shot down over the marshlands nearby. |
Synopsis: |
It is 1942 and Denmark is occupied by German troops. A young woman is invited to spend the summer with people she barely knows in a cottage on the North Sea coast. There she meets two people who will affect her entire life: a fourteen-year-old boy who is the nephew of her hosts, and an English airman who is shot down over the marshlands nearby. Timid friendships develop into a dangerous triangle, and many years later an elderly man looks back on it all asking himself whether his youthful desire gave way to an unforgivable betrayal. Virginia is a sensitive, deeply moving love story about the intricacies of relationships in the troubled twentieth century, written with Grondahl's incomparable, perceptive sympathy. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Canongate International |
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Returnable |
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