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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was able to pick up the threads of this second novel in the Daniel Pitt series. The plot line is carried forward in multiple narrative voices of the different characters. There were sections that bought to mind the marvelous writing I associate with Birds Without Wings, mainly with the graphic description of the soldiers experiences in the first world war. I preferred this book to the first in the series and will go on to read the final installment in The Autumn of the Ace. What a great start but then the large cast is too much,not really close to them, you only feel close to a small number and they constant swopping from one to another character,and even worse the first person to narrated sections makes it disjointed....a pity... There are some very fine and affecting or amusing passages however,the two tragic young deaths and an evening spent by an uncle and his young niece... Also the heart rending misery of Mr O Raggs beneficence...telling of conditions in the first world war.... This book takes your heart and runs the full gamut, leaving you feeling wrenched. But in a good way. I would certainly never read it without having read The Dust That Falls From Dreams, as it continues almost as if you have turned a page in one volume. LDB puts himself right into the heart of every character and lays them all bare. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two World Wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world--and the selves--left to them in the wake of World War I. They were inseparable childhood friends. Some were lost to the war. The others' lives were unimaginably upended, and now, postwar, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany (and, inevitably, back to Britain)--each of them trying to answer the question that fuels this sweeping novel: "If you have been embroiled in a war... what were you supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over?" As the narrative unfolds in brief, dramatic chapters we follow the old friends as their paths re-cross or their ties fray, as they test loyalties and love, face survivor's grief and guilt, adjust in profound and quotidian ways to this newest modern world. And at their center: Daniel (an RAF flying ace) and Rosie (a war-time nurse), their marriage slowly revealed to be built on lies, Daniel finding solace--and, sometimes, family--with other women, Rosie drawing her religion around herself like a carapace. Here too are Rosie's sisters--a "bohemian," a minister's wife, and a spinster; Daniel's despairing brother; Rosie's "increasingly peculiar" mother and her genial, secretive father. And as peace once more gives way to war, we see it begin to reshape, yet again, the lives of these beautifully drawn women and men"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Louis de Bernieres applies this idea to soldiers and nurses in the years between one world war and the next in his provocative 2018 novel “So Much Life Left Over.” They survived the war. How can they survive the peace?
Although there are many characters, most of the attention falls on Daniel Pitt, a pilot who didn't expect to live through the war. Now he looks for a career involving planes or motorcycles or anything fast and dangerous. He marries Rosie, who lost the man she loved in the war. They have a daughter and then a son, losing a boy in between. Done having children, Rosie turns Daniel away and then tries to turn the children against him.
Daniel turns to other women, first a girl in Ceylon, where they live after the war, and later a housemaid in England. Rosie's sister, a lesbian, wants children and invites Daniel into her bed, with her lover's permission. They have two children together, with Daniel called their godfather.
The lives of these and other characters don't seem to come into focus again until a new war with Germany breaks out. War makes everything simple again. ( )