Peace
  • Published:
    Apr-2008 (Hardcover)
    Apr-2009 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Time Period:
    1940's-1950's WWII (1939-1945) 20th Century
  • Pages:
    192
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From the prize-winning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Academy Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a powerful novel about war, trust, and salvation that begs to be read in a single sitting.

Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal 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. And the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them on that mountain, where they are confronted with the horror of their own time--and then set upon by a sniper.

Taut and propulsive--with its spare language, its punishing landscape, and the keenly drawn portraits of the three young soldiers at its center--Peace is a feat of economy, compression, and imagination, a brutal and unmistakably contemporary meditation on the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.
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    • Apr-2009
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0307388581
    • ISBN13: 9780307388582
    • First Edition
    • Apr-2008
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0307268330
    • ISBN13: 9780307268334
    •  
    • Aug-2009
    • Atlantic Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1848870841
    • ISBN13: 9781848870840
    •  
    • Apr-2008
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307269302
    • ISBN13: 9780307269300
    •  
    • Apr-2008
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0594000130
    • ISBN13: 9780594000136
    •  
    • Jul-2010
    • Grove Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1848879970
    • ISBN13: 9781848879973
    •  
    • Jul-2008
    • Tantor Media
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1400157684
    • ISBN13: 9781400157686
    •  
    • Jul-2008
    • Tantor Media
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1400107687
    • ISBN13: 9781400107681
    •  
    • Jul-2008
    • Tantor Media
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1400137683
    • ISBN13: 9781400137688
    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Playaway
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1608127885
    • ISBN13: 9781608127887
    •  
    • Dec-2008
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1410411702
    • ISBN13: 9781410411709
    • Large Print



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