Chernobyl Strawberries"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
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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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