Chernobyl Strawberries

Chernobyl Strawberries

by Vesna Goldsworthy
Chernobyl Strawberries

Chernobyl Strawberries

by Vesna Goldsworthy

Paperback(Anniversary)

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Overview

"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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781908524478
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press, Ltd
Publication date: 04/14/2015
Edition description: Anniversary
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 1,025,098
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Still Life (Foreword to the 10th Anniversary Edition) 11

1 The Beginnings, All of Them 25

2 The Name of the Mother 46

3 My Oaths of Allegiance 68

4 A Poem for Comrade Tito 88

5 Peter the Great, Peter the Earless and Other Romances 109

6 God and Books 141

7 Homesickness, War and Radio 163

8 Fathers and Sons 190

9 England, My England 210

Afterword 235

Acknowledgements 237

Life After Strawberries (Epilogue to the paperback edition) 239

My eleven favourite books 249

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