Balkan Trilogy

''Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised'' Anthony Burgess

''So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do these things so elegantly is no small achievement'' Sunday Times

''A fantastically tart and readable ...