Casualties

By Lynne Reid Banks

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140100784
• ISBN13: 9780140100785
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.6" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Secrets of war will not remain hidden

This is a powerful book which examines the hidden shame and wounds of war. The novel begins with an argument between one couple and moves back and forth through time and across borders. The characters are initially not particularly attractive or compelling but bearing with them you learn of depth and anguish unimagined by looking at the modish, artistic and intelligent selves they present to the world. The strongest recommendation for this novel came from an acquaintance who called me late at night after finishing the book to thank me for recommending it. She felt this slim novel explained so much anguish that she had sensed but not comprehended in the relationship with her family which had - to all appearances - survived World War II and moved on with their lives. The power of this novel is in its examination of the tentacles of war which reach through time and generations to hold us in ways that we can ignore but not escape.