- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; First Edition edition (4 Mar 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316727490
- ISBN-13: 978-0316727495
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 944,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Observer
‘I grew to love Slovo's powerful narrator. . . Slovo has produced a novel which is demanding, brave and bold'
The Times
'Ice Road brilliantly depicts, from the emotional inside, the most politically disastrous assassination in Russian history . . . Enthralling'
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Out here on deck my breath is turned to ice but I won't go in, at least not yet. Read the first page
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just finished reading Ice Road, and it still fills my head and heart. Slovo writes with compassion of a period in Russian history which brought about so much human suffering. THis is a book that reveals humanity at its worst and at its best, yet Slovo never judges. She lets her characters speak for themselves. Wonderful.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This was a book that I could just not put down, and when I finished I wanted to start all over again... but I had to go to work. Gillian Slovo's book is a realistic novel about true events in Russia's history and whoever you are, it will make you shed tears. I didn't want to read it at first because I thought it was going to be a cliché romantic drama with shooting and death. Thankfully my friend convinced me to go ahead and after page two I saw just how wrong I really was. I won't go into the story line as I wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone. However trust me when I say this is a book you just have to read.
20 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
ICE ROAD
by
Gillian Slovo
A review by Valerie Rowland
by
Gillian Slovo
A review by Valerie Rowland
Slovo brings scholarship and accomplished writing to this powerful tale of revolution, political idealism and disillusionment. Slovo's ice, snow and blizzards whirl through the pages, carrying the drama along; a counterpoint to the suffering of ordinary people caught up in the tragedy of war, betrayal and privation.
There is an obvious connection between Slovo's upbringing in South Africa, the daughter of anti-apartheid campaigners and her bold first attempt at a historical novel set in Stalinist Russia, a comparable period in history in which ordinary people struggled to survive repression and revolution. The child Gillian's observation of life around her informs the narrative of Ice Road. Left alone to be «the responsible one» of her siblings Gillian knew the African servants as individuals and personalities. She understood what anyone who has worked as a domestic knows; that the detritus of the household is the key to its characters. To clean a bedroom is to know the intimate secrets of its occupants. Irina, the central character of Ice Road is a cleaner, who observes people and events with a dispassionate eye.
The «I» of Irina and the «I» echoed in the title are the «eyes» of an observant child and the key to the warmth of humanity in this book. Irina comes to learn that there are terrible consequences when people are sacrificed on the altar of idealism.
Ice Road is a celebration of the female spirit finding a path through the blizzards of history. It deserves the Orange Prize.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
no thank you
reached page 104 and still this story did not engage me.bought on the strength of several highly praising reviews,in the press and on amazon.for me a waste of both time and money.
Published 2 months ago by weedkiller
I just couldn't get into this book
Miss slovos research was fantastic. You just felt the heartache in all these characters in this terrible situation of blockaded Leningrad. But I felt it didn't flow for me. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Y Allen
Love, war and death in a tumultuous times
I first tried to read this book almost two years ago - for some reason I couldn't get into it. However, I decided not to abandon it completely as I am quite a fan of Gillian Slovo... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Alison McVey
a masterpiece
THis book is certainly within the domain of being a masterpiece. I cannot add much to the other 5 star reviews, which are informative and perceptive and give a good account of the... Read more
Published 18 months ago by F. Ledwith
A little dissapointed
I was really looking forward to this book, also based on the positive reviews, but found it quite tough going. Read more
Published on 27 July 2007 by A. Radeck
Compelling Writing
Gillian Slovo is consitently compelling - her autobiographical work Every Secret Thing remains one of my all-time favourite books. Read more
Published on 27 July 2004 by Booksthatmatter
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