Book Review
Sep. 9th, 2004 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
There are so many things to say about this book, I don't even know where to begin. It is the final volume of Barker's WWI trilogy, and it is incredible. I think the main themes have to do with the conditions of living in a society deeply entrenched, invested even, in war and death. And there is a lot of death in this book. Not just the death of characters, but the fact of death itself. The issues this novel tackles are big: what does it mean when people's lives are lived in the midst of death? what happens when a society anchors itself in war and death? is it worth it and what if the answer is no? Yet the story and the writing are intimately human and rooted in the details of daily living. I cannot recommend these books enough.
by Pat Barker
There are so many things to say about this book, I don't even know where to begin. It is the final volume of Barker's WWI trilogy, and it is incredible. I think the main themes have to do with the conditions of living in a society deeply entrenched, invested even, in war and death. And there is a lot of death in this book. Not just the death of characters, but the fact of death itself. The issues this novel tackles are big: what does it mean when people's lives are lived in the midst of death? what happens when a society anchors itself in war and death? is it worth it and what if the answer is no? Yet the story and the writing are intimately human and rooted in the details of daily living. I cannot recommend these books enough.
