Olivia Manning était une romancière britannique dont la fiction et la non-fiction détaillent fréquemment des voyages et des odyssées personnelles. S'inspirant abondamment de ses propres expériences, tout en faisant preuve d'un vif talent imaginatif, ses récits se déroulent en Angleterre, en Irlande, en Europe et au Moyen-Orient. Son œuvre est largement admirée pour son regard artistique et ses descriptions vivantes des lieux, immergeant les lecteurs dans des décors variés. Les romans les plus célèbres de Manning, nés de ses expériences vécues durant des périodes tumultueuses en Europe de l'Est, démontrent sa profonde capacité à capturer l'esprit humain au milieu des bouleversements.
Septembre 1939. Guy et Harriet Pringle, jeunes mariés, quittent Londres pour s'installer à Bucarest. Leur couple, pris dans la tourmente qui secoue l'Europe, va s'aimer et se déchirer sur fond d'Histoire, coincé loin de leur pays, en Roumanie, qui va leur devenir peu à peu hostile. Cette saga peuplée d'exilés, de réfugiés, fait l'objet d'une adaptation télévisée.
As the British fight a desperate battle against the German forces in Egypt, Guy and Harriet Pringle are involved in their personal struggle with their marriage
Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the advance of the German army. This classic work of post-war fiction was made into a magnificent BBC television series starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.
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Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the advance of the German army. This classic work of post-war fiction was made into a magnificent BBC television series starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.
Athens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young couple are reunited, Guy once again becomes absorbed in his work, leading Harriet to seek the attention of a handsome young officer. But when Greece is defeated and Europe starts to crumble around them, Guy and Harriet are forced to find a new strength amidst the devastation. Manning's exquisite observations on love, marriage and friendship during wartime are brought vibrantly to life.
A distinguished English novelist portrays Egypt and, in particular, life in Cairo during the Second World War when Rommel's offensive was at its height
'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday TelegraphBucharest, 1940.
Fourteen subtle and beautifully written stories of varying theme and setting are brought together in this brilliant collection: haunting studies of lonely childhoods, shrewdly perceptive portraits of adult relationships and black comedies of domestic deadlock - all infused with Olivia Manning's precise and consistent wit.
A compelling portrait of a relationship between a young man and a matriarch. Orphaned and friendless, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.
Harriet Pringle travels with her husband by train through a war-threatened Europe towards the east. Guy has been working in Bucharest, and now he brings his young bride to this metropolis, a city caught between modernity and an Oriental jumble, where spies, military personnel, impoverished Russian nobles, dubious ladies, Nazi officials, and fleeing Jewish professors mingle in the grand and less grand hotels, cafés, and nightclubs. Their young marital bliss is far from untroubled. Although Harriet has much to ponder regarding the attractive Romanian Sophia and her husband's other suspicious contacts, she moves through the days before the impending catastrophe with eyes wide open, receptive to both the signs of looming disaster and the beauty of the bewildering foreignness around her. Everyone wonders: Will German tanks roll down the avenues tomorrow, or will the Red Army arrive? Meanwhile, the vibrant British expatriate community rehearses a Shakespearean play: Troilus and Cressida – the fall of Troy.
Pretty, brave and eighteen, Ellie has come to London in search of adventure. She soon finds it in Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired dilettante who finds her a job in fashionable Chelsea. And Petta, his once beautiful wife, is fighting back age as fiercely as Ellie is plunging into it.
