Name: In Memoriam: A Novel
Price: 827.00 TWD
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Author: Alice Winn
ISBN: 9780593534564

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alice Winn

Publisher

Knopf

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 17.0 x 3.8 cm

Weight

0.73 kg.

ISBN13

9780593534564

Synopsis "In Memoriam: A Novel "

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I - "Dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement." --Lev Grossman, best-selling author of The Magicians It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle--an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood--without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt's horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next. An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.

Alice Winn

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Alice Mary Felicity Winn is an Irish and American novelist and screenwriter, born in France and educated in England. She won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize in 2023 for her novel In Memoriam.

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