Peace

This "small masterpiece with the same emotional force and moral complexity as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Tolstoy's Hadji Murad" (Colm Tóibín) inspired the film Recon.

Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An 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.

As they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. Peace is a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/07/2009
ISBN: 9780307388582
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.24w x 0.57d
Award: Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 05/24/2009 pg. 20