Sentences with phrase «modern war novel»

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Moreover, how is it possible to read the reference to «the power of modern means of destruction» without recalling the role of this judgment in leading to the novel idea of a presumption against war?

Set in modern - day Manhattan, this is an adaptation of «Les Liaisons Dangereuses,» the classic and scandalous Pierre Laclos novel of sexual manipulation and romantic war games first published in...

The film is based on J.G. Ballard's acclaimed 1975 novel of the same name: «When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on «enemy» floors.»

Written only 30 years after the War, the book has an authenticity that more modern novels lack.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about her interest in the 1960s Nigeria - Biafra civil war, which provides the background for her stunning novel Half of a Yellow Sun, and in what ways modern - day Nigeria is still influenced by the war.

In her debut novel, Prentiss takes a more modern tack as she explores the NYC art scene in the 1980s through the eyes of an art critic whose synesthesia has made him one of the most original writers around and an exiled Argentinian artist fleeing the Dirty War.

Readers who experience a quiet thrill upon discovering an exciting new novel are likely to encounter that sensation when they read Welcome to Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo's second work of fiction (and her American debut), a fast - paced story of war refugees, militants and others fleeing conflict in modern - day Nigeria.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón's portrait of Spain between the wars is among the many things that make this novel a modern classic.

Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic spanning Kingston in the»70s, the crack wars in»80s New York, and a radically altered Jamaica in the»90s.

He has written a couple of stand - alone novels but the rest of his books fall into four series - those starring ex-SEAL Tiller Galloway, the Dan Lenson novels set in the modern navy, the Hemlock County novels (his only landlocked series set in the area of Pennsylvania where he grew up), and his Civil War series.

Creators Art professor Geo Sipp talks about the graphic novel he is creating, together with novelist Conger Beasley Jr., which is set during the Algerian War and draws parallels to the use of torture in that conflict and in modern times.

Naturally, when Honeycutt discovered The Glass Room, a 2009 novel by Simon Mawer that tells the compelling and tragic tale of a Modern house built in Czechoslovakia before World War II, she was drawn to the story, and she decided to use it as the basis for this exhibition.