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Land of the Living (Hardcover)
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Land of the Living (Hardcover)
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A profound masterpiece on war, loss and survival set in Nagaland,
India during the Second World War, by the Orange Prize-shortlisted
author of Painter of Silence 'Vivid, illuminating and unbearably
tense ... A masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea
of home and the limits of love' Guardian Charlie's experiences at
the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote
jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history.
Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk and newly married to Claire,
he is one of the lucky survivors. Starting a family and working the
land seem the best things a man can be doing. But a chasm exists
between them. Memories flood Charlie's mind; at night, on
rain-slicked roads and misty mornings in the fields, the past can
feel more real than the present. Though hidden even to himself, the
darkest secrets of Charlie's adventures in the strange and shadowy
ridges of the Nagaland mountains, his dream-like encounters with
the mysterious and ancient tribesmen, leak and bleed through his
consciousness. What should be said and what left unsaid? Is it
possible to forge a new life in the wake of unfathomable horror? A
beautifully conceived, deftly controlled and delicately wrought
meditation on the isolating impact of war, the troubling legacies
of colonialism and the inescapable reach of the past, Georgina
Harding's haunting, lyrical novel questions the very nature of
survival, and what it is that the living owe the dead.
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