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Small wars : a novel / Sadie Jones.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061929885 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0061929883 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 376 p. : map ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, 2010, c2009.
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| General Note: | Originally published: Great Britain : Chatto & Windus, 2009. |
| Summary, etc.: | Hal Treherne is a major in the British Army, a young and dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. When he is transferred to the British colony of Cyprus in 1956, Hal is joined by Clara, his beautiful and supportive wife, and their baby daughters. The Trehernes quickly learn that the Mediterranean is no "sunshine posting," however, and soon Hal is caught up in the battle to defend the island against Cypriots seeking enosis, union with Greece. |
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| Subject: | British > Cyprus > Fiction. Military spouses > Fiction. Cyprus > History > British rule, 1878-1960 > Fiction. Cyprus > Fiction. |
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Small Wars : A Novel
"Sadie Jones has a long literary future ahead of her." --Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring Fresh off her triumphantly assured debut novel The Outcast, award-winning author Sadie Jones has again delivered a quiet masterpiece in Small Wars. Set on the colonial, war-torn island of Cyprus in 1956, Jones tells the story of a young solider, Hal Treherne, and the effects of this "small war" on him, his wife Clara, and their family. Reminiscent of classic tales of love and war such as The English Patient and Atonement, Jones's gripping novel also calls to mind the master works of Virginia Woolf and their portrayal of the quiet desperation of a marriage in crisis. Small Wars is at once a deeply emotional, meticulously researched work of historical fiction and a profound meditation on war-time atrocities committed both on and off the battlefield.
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