- Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918, Friendship, Soldiers
It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- John Boyne
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Salamandra, Transworld Publishers Limited, Boekerij
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Spanish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780385616041
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