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Ice Road

By Gillian Slovo

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"A gripping story of courage, disillusionment, survival, and the triumph of the human spirit."—Sarah Durant, author of The Birth of Venus

Loyalties, beliefs, love, family ties: all are tested to the limit in one of the most devastating moments of human history: the siege of LeContinue

"A gripping story of courage, disillusionment, survival, and the triumph of the human spirit."—Sarah Durant, author of The Birth of Venus

Loyalties, beliefs, love, family ties: all are tested to the limit in one of the most devastating moments of human history: the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Boris Aleksandrovich, a well-meaning bureaucrat, thinks he can negotiate between idealism and politics. His daughter, Natasha, learns otherwise when, as a young woman in love, she is almost crushed by her father's compromises. Watching all this unfold is Irina. Wise, ironic, marvelous Irina, whom Boris had persuaded to go on an ill-fated voyage to the Arctic Circle, where she barely survived. When she arrives back in Leningrad, he feels honor bound to find her a position within his family circle. Irina comes to understand how love for another may, in the end, be more powerful and more profound than blind loyalty to an idea. Exciting and heroic, peopled with wonderfully complex characters, Ice Road is a masterpiece. A finalist for the Orange Prize.

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  • Frozen wastes

    Ice Road by Gillian Slovo 560pp, Little, Brown, £14.99 "Can the dead speak?" asks one of the chapter headings in Gillian Slovo's magnificent novel, set in the years between Stalin's purges and the blockade of Leningrad. The fate of those executed or ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Irina's small present to Soviet history

    Ice Road by Gillian Slovo Little, Brown £14.99, pp544 Ice Road takes Gillian Slovo away from her familiar South African terrain and sets her down in Russia in the 1930s and 1940s. She barely pauses to glimpse at the map before racing confidently alon ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 560 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1844080595
  • ISBN-13: 9781844080595
  • Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk
  • Pub date: Jan 31, 2005
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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