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by Gillian Slovo (Author) "Out here on deck my breath is turned to ice but I won't go in, at least not yet ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown; 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: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 543,707 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ice Road, 23 May 2004
By Vanessa Depré (Brussels, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring book, 7 Jul 2006
This review is from: Ice Road (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.
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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Why Ice Road should win the Orange Prize, 23 May 2004
By V. ROWLAND "Valerie Rowland" (Guernsey, Channel Islands) - See all my reviews
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ICE ROAD
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Compelling Writing
Gillian Slovo is consitently compelling - her autobiographical work Every Secret Thing remains one of my all-time favourite books. Read more
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