Vesna Goldsworthy

Nov 7, 2024 | waterstones.com | Mark Skinner |Jonathan Coe |Vesna Goldsworthy |Cecile Pin

Posted on 7th November 2024 by Mark Skinner The Proof of My Innocence – the new, bitingly funny novel from the author of The Rotter's Club and Middle England – blends murder mystery, coming-of-age story, dark academia and sublimely sharp political commentary to unputdownable effect. In this exclusive piece, Jonathan Coe shares his top five political novels of all time. Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy ‘Political’ novels come in all shapes, sizes and forms. We could be talking sexual...

Mar 10, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Vesna Goldsworthy

Milena is a “Red Princess,” a royal in all but name, being the daughter of a high-ranking Soviet official. She receives gold medals for writing “mediocre” essays; has access to Lacoste and Ray-Bans and even Yves Saint Laurent; and gets away with attending artistic performances discouraged by the state.

Mar 8, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Vesna Goldsworthy

Vesna Goldsworthy’s Iron Curtain is set in an undisclosed USSR satellite state in the 1980s, seemingly at the end of the Cold War. But you wouldn’t know it from the story, which masterfully delves into the still-sharp differences between East and West, questions the purported ideals of both, and boldly if nihilistically (and rarely for Western literature) deconstructs the belief that one is more virtuous than the other.