Ice Road

Loyalties, beliefs, love, family ties: all are tested to the limit in one of the most devastating moments of human history: the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Boris Aleksandrovich, a well-meaning bureaucrat, thinks he can negotiate between idealism and politics. His daughter, Natasha, learns otherwise when, as a young woman in love, she is almost crushed by her father's compromises. Watching all this unfold is Irina. Wise, ironic, marvelous Irina, whom Boris had persuaded to go on an ill-fated voyage to the Arctic Circle, where she barely survived. When she arrives back in Leningrad, he feels honor bound to find her a position within his family circle. Irina comes to understand how love for another may, in the end, be more powerful and more profound than blind loyalty to an idea. Exciting and heroic, peopled with wonderfully complex characters, Ice Road is a masterpiece. A finalist for the Orange Prize.

Author: Gillian Slovo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/17/2005
Pages: 556
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.56w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780393327205
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2005 pg. 1434
New York Times 06/26/2005 pg. 18
Library Journal 06/15/2005 pg. 60
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2005 pg. 257
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 79

About the Author
Slovo, Gillian: - Gillian Slovo, author of the novel Red Dust, now a feature film, and co-author of the play Guantánamo, as well as a memoir and nine other novels, lives in London.