PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780307388582
- Categories BX, BXOS, extraordinary, F LIT, Fic20, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Author(s) Richard Bausch
- Publisher Vintage
- Pages 171
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 13.3cm x 1.4cm x 20.3cm
- Weight 0.38 kg
product description
Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. As they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. Peace is a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy. *This book may have remainder mark*