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The Dust That Falls from Dreams

✍ Scribed by Louis De Bernieres

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Knopf Canada
Year: 2015
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 313 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1473511402

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✦ Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a sumptuous, sweeping, powerfully moving new novel about a British family whose lives and loves are indelibly shaped by the horrors of World War I and the hopes of its aftermath.

In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London. With their neighbors, the two Pitt brothers and the three Pendennis boys, they are "The Pals." But these days of childhood camaraderie and adventure are brought to an abrupt end by the outbreak of World War I, in which some will lose their lives, some their loved ones, some their faith, and all of them their innocence. We follow them through the years of the war--in the trenches, in air battles, in the hospitals where the women serve with as much passion and nearly as much hardship as the men at the front--and its aftermath as the modern world slowly emerges out of the ashes of...

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