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Twelve post-war tales
Swift, Graham, 1949-2025
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In the aftermath of the Second World War Private Joseph Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members; in the 1960s a father focuses on his daughter's wedding even as the Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of disaster; in 2001, while planes fly into the Twin Towers, a maid working for US Embassy staff in London wonders if her birth on the day of the Kennedy assassination shaped her life; and at the height of a pandemic lockdown, Dr. Cole, a retired specialist in respiratory disease, returns to work and recalls a formative childhood encounter with illness and much more. These are just a few of the challenged characters we meet in Graham Swift's Twelve Post-war Tales.--Dust jacket gate fold.
Main title:
Twelve post-war tales / by Graham Swift.
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Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2025.©2025.
Collation:
289 pages ; 23 cm
Variant title:
12 post-war tales
ISBN:
9781761429088 (hardback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
528815
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