James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
The Ice Saints
A novel about cultural clashes in Cold War Poland.
Work Information
An English woman visits her sister behind the Iron Curtain.
Tuohy draws on his experience in Poland to create a sharp, humane novel.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Apollo
- Published
- 2018-05-01
- Pages
- 240 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.7 x 2.29 x 19.69 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781784978235
- ISBN-10
- 178497823X
- Price
- 2629 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Historical
A young English woman arrives in the Polish People's Republic to visit her older sister, who married a Polish soldier after the war, disappearing into a life behind the Iron Curtain. This award-winning novel of the harsh cruelties and deprivations of life in Communist Poland is told with truth, wit and understanding.
Frank Tuohy (1925-1999) was a novelist and short story writer who worked for the British Council in a number of academic posts abroad, including Krakow, Poland. The Ice Saints , his third novel, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and James Tait Black Prize. Neal Ascherson is a journalist the author of Black Sea and Stone Voices .