Awards
Costa Novel Award
2009 Shortlist
A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernieres
Judges: "An elegant love story about the lies we tell ourselves and why we have to."
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. But is Roza telling the truth? Does Chris hear the stories through the filter of his own need? Does it even matter?
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