![]() ![]() ![]() The intensity of their bond brought Tristan happiness and self-discovery as well as confusion and unbearable pain. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks of his friendship with Will-from their first meeting on the training grounds at Aldershot to their farewell in the trenches of northern France. He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. 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.īut the letters are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. John Boyne is very, very good at portraying the destructive power of a painfully kept secret.” -John Irving, National Book Award–winning author of The Cider House RulesĪ masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism, and betrayal set in the gruesome trenches of World War I. “A novel of immeasurable sadness, in a league with Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. ![]()
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