EAN: 9780593467848

IN MEMORIAM - ALICE WINN KARTONIERT (TB)

GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting  virtuosic debut novel
about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Will live in your mind long after
you’ve closed the final pages.” —Maggie O’Farrell  best-selling author of Hamnet and The
Marriage Portrait   A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker  The Washington Post  NPR   “In
Memoriam is the story of a great tragedy  but it is also a moving portrait of young love.”— The
New York Times   It’s 1914  and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young
men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt  Sidney
Ellwood and the rest of their classmates  safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in
the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more
exciting.  Gaunt  half German  is busy fighting his own private battle--an all-consuming
infatuation with his best friend  the glamorous  charming Ellwood--without a clue that Ellwood
is pining for him in return. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the
anti-German sentiment they face  Gaunt does so immediately  relieved to escape his overwhelming
feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt's horror  Ellwood rushes to join him at the front  and the rest
of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality  often inches
away  and no one knows who will be next.  An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war
and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip  In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.

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