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Balkan trilogy

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British novelist Olivia Manning traveled to the Balkans with her husband at the outbreak of World War II and did not return to England until 1945, moving from Romania to Greece and from Greece to Egypt. These wanderings are the subject of her Balkan Trilogy, which Anthony Burgess has called the best account of the war in British fiction. Manning has not been on battlefields or in hospitals, nor has she fought the regime or the enemy invaders. She was trying to build an ordinary life in a faltering world without panic. Such is the case with her heroine Harriet, a woman who is silent and observes rather than acts. In "The Balkan Trilogy" around Harriet, through the prism of her thoughts and feelings, the readers see a panorama of a specific secular society - disconnected aristocrats, powerless diplomats, bankers in ruin, confused journalists and simply emigrants who managed to escape the war for a while and are always ready to break out again.
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