Chernobyl Strawberries

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Bitter Lemon Press, Mar 16, 2015 - Biography & Autobiography - 256 pages

"Exceptional. If there has been a more honest, calm, and profoundly moving memoir written in the last few years, then I've missed it."—Times Literary Supplement

How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir, Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family, and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to England, and a successful media and academic career, then a cancer diagnosis and its unresolved consequences. A profoundly moving, comic, and original account by a stunning literary talent.

 

Contents

Still Life
11
The Beginnings All of Them
25
The Name of the Mother
46
My Oaths of Allegiance
68
A Poem for Comrade Tito
88
Peter the Great Peter the Earless
109
God and Books
141
Homesickness War and Radio
163
Fathers and Sons
190
England My England
210
Afterword
235
My eleven favourite books
249
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Vesna Goldsworthy: Born in Belgrade in 1961, Vesna Goldsworthy left Yugoslavia in 1986 to marry a British diplomat. She has worked in Britain for the BBC, in publishing, and in academia. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Suburban Studies at Kingston University. Her first novel will be published internationally (in the US by Random House) in 2015.

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