Nadia, Christine Evans
Nadia, Christine Evans
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Nadia

Author: Christine Evans

Narrator: Selma Ducanovic

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/19/2023

Synopsis

Nadia moves between the competing perspectives of two survivors of the 1990s Balkan Wars who have escaped to London, only to discover that the war has followed them there. Nadia is a young refugee who just wants to forget the past—until Iggy starts temping at her London office. Afraid he may be a sniper from the war she fled, Nadia starts seeing threats everywhere, alongside unsettling visions of her lost girlfriend, Sanja. As her volatile connection with Iggy unravels, Nadia is forced to face the ethically shaky choices she made to escape the war, her survivor guilt, and her disavowed queer sexuality.

Christine Evans's novel takes us to the recent past of a war that broke apart a European country and that presciently foreshadowed the rise of ethno-nationalism in the West. Tense, suspenseful, and mordantly funny, Nadia tracks the complex ways in which a past marked by political violence can shadow and disrupt the present.

About The Author

Christine Evans writes internationally produced plays, opera libretti, and fiction. Her work has been staged at the Sydney Opera House and many other venues, and her plays are published by Samuel French. Originally from Australia, she is a professor of performing arts at Georgetown University, and lives in Washington, DC.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie

2.5 stars rounded up - I could not get into this one. The horrors of the Serbian war are relived through Nadia, who as the reader I struggled to connect to her. The shifting then and now timeline was relatively well done, but at times it felt like it was being added for shock value. Too many ghosts, t......more

Goodreads review by Lynn

Nadia takes place in two time frames. In London, after the Bosnian War, and during the armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war. Nadia is a Muslim woman who is struggling with her identity as she was raised by a conservative Muslim family. Nadia has a strong attraction......more

Goodreads review by Virginia

Brilliant craft ! Christine Evans' poetic precision enhances her deep personal research - in a rough and painful world of war and post-war trauma, she sculpts her characters with details that are always deep and never gratuitous. Her own musical background adds to her parsing and to points of view f......more

Goodreads review by G.P.

Nadia is a young Bosnian refugee who has lost everyone she’s loved. In 1997 she gets into England on a fake passport and finds temp work in a shady office that might be doing something illegal. A new temp named Iggy shows up and Nadia knows he’s from her country even though he says he’s Armenian. Sh......more

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