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De geschonden stad (Balkan trilogie Book 2)

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Het tweede deel van de Balkan-trilogie, eerder verscheen Het grote fortuin

Boekarest, 1940. De stad staat op het punt om binnengevallen te worden door de Duitsers en Guy en Harriet Pringle merken dat hun situatie steeds gevaarlijker
wordt. Harriet verlangt naar veiligheid, en raakt gefrustreerd door het idealisme van Guy. Wanneer de inval daadwerkelijk plaatsvindt, besluit Guy echter dat ze uit elkaar moeten gaan in een wanhopige poging om veiligheid te vinden. Harriet vlucht naar Athene.

De geplunderde stad is een dramatisch en kleurrijk portret van een land in rep en roer, en van een jong stel dat worstelt om hun huwelijk ondanks alle tegenslagen
in stand te houden.

429 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2026

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Olivia Manning

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Olivia Manning CBE was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. She often wrote from her personal experience, though her books also demonstrate strengths in imaginative writing. Her books are widely admired for her artistic eye and vivid descriptions of place.
In August 1939 she married R.D. Smith ("Reggie"), a British Council lecturer posted in Bucharest, Romania, and subsequently in Greece, Egypt and Palestine as the Nazis over-ran Eastern Europe. Her experiences formed the basis for her best known work, the six novels making up "The Balkan Trilogy" and "The Levant Trilogy," known collectively as Fortunes of War. As she had feared, real fame only came after her death in 1980, when an adaptation of "Fortunes of War" was televised in 1987.

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