Nadia: A Novel

· Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Selma Ducanovic
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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.
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...

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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.
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, an...

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