Iron Curtain: A Love Story by Goldsworthy, Vesna
Vesna Goldsworthy
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Iron Curtain: A Love Story -- Vesna Goldsworthy, Hardcover


Milena Urbanska is a red princess living in a Soviet satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable. When she meets Jason, a confident but politically naive British poet, they fall into bed together. Before long, Milena is planning her escape. She follows Jason to London, where she's shocked to find herself living in bohemian poverty. The rented apartment is dingy, the food disgusting, and Jason's family withholding, but at least there are no hidden cameras recording her every move. As she adjusts to her new life, however, Milena discovers the dark side of Jason's idea of freedom.

With cool wit and tender precision, Vesna Goldsworthy delivers a razor-sharp vision of two worlds on the brink of change, amidst the failures of family and state. Iron Curtain is a sly, elegant comedy of manners that challenges the myths we tell ourselves.



Author: Vesna Goldsworthy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781324021728

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/02/2023
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2023
Booklist 02/01/2023 pg. 24