
The War Tour
Zoe Lambert(Author)
Comma Press
Published on 27. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-905583-28-7 (ISBN)
Description
From Kandahar to Sarajevo and the forests of Lithuania to the Congo's boot camps, these short stories weave a dark and disturbing web, interlacing documentary accounts with imagined testimonies to give a voice to the many silenced casualties of war. An elderly woman on a bus tells a love story drawn from the depths of Soviet history; a soldier returns from his first tour of duty unsure he deserves his hero's welcome; and a Norwegian immigrant pieces together a family history fractured in the aftermath of Nazi occupation. These are just some of the stories that, individually, bear witness to a thirst for conflict that seems both unquenchable and foreign. Together, they bring the question of collusion and responsibility all the way back to the reader's own doorstep.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Mytholmroyd
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905583-28-7 (9781905583287)
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Person
Zoe Lambert is a writer, a lecturer in creative writing at the Universities of Bolton and Edge Hill, and a contributor to the anthology Bracket. She is the founder of Verberate, which is the name of cult Manchester's literature night, and a board member of the Northwest Short Story Network.