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5 Books on the Legacy of War (WSJ)

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The Wall Street Journal invited me to recommend five books on the legacy of war, for its 5 Best column. I wrote about novels by John McGahern, Evie Wyld, Patrick Modiano, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Uzodinma Uweala.

Amongst Women

By John McGahern (1990)

1. The threat of imminent violence hangs over every page of this Irish masterpiece by John McGahern, just as it does over the Moran farm and its “poor fields, littered with rock and gorse.”…

To read the full piece, with more about each of the novels, please look here.

 

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