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flopps 's review for:
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by Sebastian Faulks
Among other things that are good in this book, four things in particular struck me as seeming extremely well done:
1. The description of how the soldiers felt when they were on leave in England, how they were looked at and treated and how seeing "normal" life in London created a huge gap between the soldiers life and their old life/life back home.
2. How the question of the purpose of the war was brought up several time with different soldiers really wondering why they were there.
3. How some soldiers did not want to go back home and did not want to be confronted with the gap separating them from their old life. How they felt no one could understand them and they couldn't talk to their loved ones because of what they had live
4. how the future generations felt this need to find out more about it, how we want to understand what happened, what a member of our family went through
1. The description of how the soldiers felt when they were on leave in England, how they were looked at and treated and how seeing "normal" life in London created a huge gap between the soldiers life and their old life/life back home.
2. How the question of the purpose of the war was brought up several time with different soldiers really wondering why they were there.
3. How some soldiers did not want to go back home and did not want to be confronted with the gap separating them from their old life. How they felt no one could understand them and they couldn't talk to their loved ones because of what they had live
4. how the future generations felt this need to find out more about it, how we want to understand what happened, what a member of our family went through