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1914 - Goodbye to All That : Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art by Bulawayo, NoViolet;Greenlaw, Lavinia;Guo, Xiaolu;Kehlmann, Daniel;Mortier, Erwin;Shafak, Elif;Shamsie, Kamila;Smith, Ali;Steger, Ales;Toibin, Colm;Winterson, Jeanette is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A wide-ranging collection of reflective essays, written with "tender, compassionate humanity” (The Observer), marking the centenary of the conflict that changed the world. In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts that have informed their own literary lives. 1914 - Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves's "bitter leave-taking of England" in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write. Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended, these essays mark the War's centenary by reinvigorating these questions.“This superb collection of essays by some of today’s leading writers stands out among the many books commissioned to mark the centenary of the First World War.” - The LadyThe book includes Elif Shafak on an inheritance of silence in Turkey, Ali Smith on lost voices in Scotland, Xiaolu Guo on the 100,000 Chinese sent to the Front, Daniel Kehlmann on hypnotism in Berlin, Colm Toibin on Lady Gregory losing her son fighting for Britain as she fought for an independent Ireland, Kamila Shamsie on reima
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- Author
- Bulawayo, NoViolet;Greenlaw, Lavinia;Guo, Xiaolu;Kehlmann, Daniel;Mortier, Erwin;Shafak, Elif;Shamsie, Kamila;Smith, Ali;Steger, Ales;Toibin, Colm;Winterson, Jeanette
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press;Pushkin Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781782271185
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Social Science
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