Olivia Manning

OneSimon Boulderstone, aged twenty, came to Egypt with the draft. For nearly two months, as the convoy slid down one side of Africa and up the other, he had been crowded about by other men. When he reached Cairo, he was alone.He had two friends on board, Trench and Codley, who had been his family,...

1 When they reached the top of the hill from which the road snaked down in the Seven Sisters' bends, the driver nodded to the opposite hill and said: 'El-telq.' Felix knew that did not mean Jerusalem, although Jerusalem was over there. He asked: 'El-telq?' The driver smiled, shrugged, could...

A gerinc megtört, a könyvtest kettévált, egy lapja kijár.

Gerince megtört, deformált. Living and working in Rumania, Guy and Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the advance of the German army. This classic work of post-war fiction was made into a magnificent BBC television series starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh.