The drawing-room was entirely English. The Office of Works had provided deep armchairs, a sofa you could have slept on, though of course nobody had ever done so, and a low glass-topped table. 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.

An award-winning novel depicting life in Poland behind the Iron Curtain.

About the Author
John Francis Tuohy (1925-1999) was a novelist and short story writer. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge, he 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.

Reviews
A masterly novel, at once ferociously funny and compassionately sad in its depiction of the subterfuges and small betrayals by which people struggle to survive in a Communist state * Independent *


Awards
Winner of James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 1964 and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1965.



Book Information
ISBN 9781784978235
Author Frank Tuohy
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Apollo Library
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC