Sentences with phrase «contemporary war novel»

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Serious or comic, historical or contemporary, War and Peace or Lucky Jim, all novels deal with ethical questions» because novels are about human beings making choices that have consequences.

Based on the graphic novel and original screenplay by Kevin Grevioux (creator of the Underworld series), the film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam, a contemporary Frankenstein monster now living in a dark, gothic metropolis who finds himself caught in an all - out, centuries old war between two immortal clans.

Intelligently adapted from Owen Sheers's novel, Amit Gupta's surprisingly gritty war pic uses a nostalgic fantasy thriller narrative to raise very contemporary questions of the politics of collaboration and resistance.

The novel, written in 1930, anticipated not just a second world war but a tabloid culture that would become, if anything, more fevered: One could plug in Page Six and Iraq, and Vile Bodies would seem even more startlingly contemporary.

After finishing a sequence of five Cold War novels, I wanted to get out of the past and take on something contemporary.

Ben H. Winters discusses his novel Underground Airlines set in a contemporary version of the USA in which the Civil War never happened and slavery is still legal in some parts of the country

One could easily be forgiven for consigning Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series to the war novel genre, or perhaps even historical fiction, but the simple fact is that Kerr crafts some of the finest mystery novels in contemporary fiction, noir classics set against the multiple backdrops of WWII's far - reaching stages.

Joydeep Roy - Bhattacharya's heartbreaking and haunting novel, The Watch, takes a timeless tragedy and hurls it into present - day Afghanistan, giving us a gripping tour through the reality of this very contemporary conflict, and our most powerful expression to date of the nature and futility of war.

Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to contemporary Australia, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence.

«S.E.A.L. Mine,» the third and final standalone novel in the contemporary military romance Sons of War series, is now available for preorder from Amazon!

My Voyage currently holds the complete works of Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, three P.G. Wodehouse novels, every Sherlock Holmes novel and story, and two separate translations of «War and Peace,» plus a few contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction.

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Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels, Manga, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Action & Adventure, War, Short Stories, World Literature, British, Romance, Teen & Young Adult, Women's Fiction, Family Life, Inspirational, Military, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, War & Military, Women's Adventure, New Adult & College Size: 188 pages Free download for Kindle from 21 May 2018 onward PDT / PST