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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series
turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel,
a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged,
fractured world.
By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea
Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's
passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent
marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm.
When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between
Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household
management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come.
Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn
reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia's
responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing
cataclysm and turmoil.
As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her
ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters
and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom's
fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream
world of Kezia's mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will
well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face
to face with the enemy?
Published to coincide with the centennial of the Great War, The
Care and Management of Lies paints a poignant picture of love and
friendship strained by the pain of separation and the brutal chaos
of battle. Ultimately, it raises profound questions about conflict,
belief, and love that echo in our own time.
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The Thracian Sun
(Hardcover)
Murat Tuncel; Translated by Hande Eagle
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R1,048
R902
Discovery Miles 9 020
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Minor Detail
(Paperback)
Adania Shibli; Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
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R429
Discovery Miles 4 290
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Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the
war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba-the catastrophe that
led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people-and the
Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers
murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among
their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape
her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the
near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some
of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and
becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of
the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly
twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli
masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly
the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.
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