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The Balkan Trilogy. Book 1. The Greatest Good

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In the fall of 1939, weeks after Germany invades Poland, English newlyweds Guy and Harriet Pringle arrive in Bucharest, then known as "Paris of the East." The inhabitants of this diverse city, steeped in the uncertainty of war and political instability, cling to a colorful daily life while chaos engulfs Romania and the rest of Europe. Meanwhile, Harriet begins to really get to know her husband, an extroverted university professor who immediately engages in lively interactions with a multitude of people, and struggles to find her place in the peculiar company of prim diplomats, rich ladies, seductive knaves, and careerists. Based on the author's personal experience, this book was the beginning of the famous "Balkan trilogy", thanks to which Olivia Manning entered the history of literature of the XX century. Reliable recreation of historical circumstances, a wide palette of characters, subtle humor - all this makes "The Greatest Good" one of the best European novels about the Second World War.
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