OLDER FICTION
Chambers, Aidan

Postcards from No Man's Land

(1) YA Seventeen-year-old Jacob visits the family in Amsterdam that helped his grandfather during WWII. As he hears bits and pieces of a gripping story about a love affair between the young maiden, Geertrui, and an English soldier, Jacob recognizes himself in his grandparents and in the now-terminally-ill Geertrui, as well as in various companions and lovers. The reader closes the novel resolved not to prettify human choices, nor simplify them.

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