The Balkan Trilogy (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Olivia Manning
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1939-1941
- Setting: Bucharest, Rumania, and Athens, Greece
- Principal Characters: Harriet Pringle, Guy Pringle, Prince Yakimov, Clarence Lawson, Sasha Drucker, Ben Phipps, Second Lieutenant Charles Warden, Alan Frewen
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Politics, Marriage, 1940’s, World War II, 1930’s, War, Nazism or Nazis, Life and death, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Bucharest, Romania, Athens, Greece
The Novels
In the Orient Express on the way to Rumania at the start of The Balkan Trilogy in 1939, Harriet and Guy Pringle encounter a German refugee on his way to Trieste. The man loses his ticket, passport, visa, and money, and so he is turned over to unidentified officials who remove him from the train, most certainly to return him to Nazi Germany and a terrible fate. Newly married and on their way to Bucharest, where Guy will take a teaching post at the national university, the Pringles are equally alone in a hostile environment. The Rumania to which they are headed...
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