Book description
Irina Davydovna is a cleaner. She has no time for politics or even for
that matter, people: 'rules and rulers may come and go, but dirt never
changes.' Boris Aleksandrovich is a revolutionary. He thinks he
understands power. But this is Leningrad in 1933 and Stalin is about to
turn against their city. When the life of his beloved daughter Natasha
is threatened and his old friend Anton saves a skinny little orphan he
finds on a Moscow train, Boris' faith in his ideals are put to the test.
While Irina, watching it all, must learn the power of loyalty and love.
'Powerful and moving, Ice Road is a novel whose epic scope never
obscures the individual lives that are lived in the shadow of great
events. I shall never forget Natasha and Kolya's love story . . . or
Irina, whose sturdy self respect and determination to survive, seems, at
times, to speak for an entire people. Gillian Slovo excels in depicting
complex human beings, full of passion, love, ambition, self-interest,
who are caught up in their country's history and swept along by it.' Pat
Barker Born in South Africa, Gillian Slovo came with her family to
Britain in 1964. She has written nine novels, one of which, Red Dust has
been filmed with Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Her first play,
Guantanamo, played in London's West End and off-Broadway in New York.
