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The Levant Trilogy: 'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters
Olivia Manning
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'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters
'An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity' Lauren Elkin
'These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Second World War' The Sunday Times
'One of the most gifted English writers of her generation' New York Times
As Rommel advances in wartorn Egypt, the lives of the civilian population come under threat. One such couple are Guy and Harriet Pringle, who have escaped the war in Europe only to find the conflict once more on their doorstep, providing a volatile backdrop to their own personal battles.
The civilian world meets the military through the figure of Simon Boulderstone, a young army officer who will witness the tragedy and tension of war on the frontier at first hand.
An outstanding author of wartime fiction, Olivia Manning brilliantly evokes here the world of Egypt and the Levant - Syria, Lebanon and Palestine - with perception and subtlety, humour and humanity
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How many Americans who have read Barbara Pym, Beryl Bainbridge, or Iris Murdoch have ever heard of Olivia Manning? Yet she is one of the most gifted English writers of her generation.... Nobody has written better about World War II-the feel of fighting it and its dislocating effects on ordinary, undistinguished lives. - New York TimesOlivia Manning wrote as courageously about death and the fear of death-in combat, in accident, through disease, through age-as any novelist in our language this century. - New StatesmanOne of the "Five Best of World War II Fiction" - Antony Beevor, The Wall Street JournalBooks not nearly as good are touted as definitive portraits of the war; very little on a best-seller list is more readable. Manning's giant six-volume effort is one of those combinations of soap opera and literature that are so rare you'd think it would meet the conditions of two kinds of audiences: those after what the trade calls 'a good read,' and those who want something more. - The New York Review of Books
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