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A review by vgk
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
5.0
"This is what the world is liable to do nowadays - collapse in ruins - and people go on behaving as though it were nothing very much at all"
Yes, this is a book about Samuel Beckett, but it is much more than that. This is a book about war, about refugees, about how ordinary people struggle, are damaged, eek out ways to survive in the face of horrendous political events foisted upon them. That makes this book very timely. The war in Syria, the rise of the racist Right in Europe and the USA, these events are not to be turned away from, they are events to be watched and resisted. This book will tell you why.
Yes, this is a book about Samuel Beckett, but it is much more than that. This is a book about war, about refugees, about how ordinary people struggle, are damaged, eek out ways to survive in the face of horrendous political events foisted upon them. That makes this book very timely. The war in Syria, the rise of the racist Right in Europe and the USA, these events are not to be turned away from, they are events to be watched and resisted. This book will tell you why.