Books Details
Author : Nick Dybek Pages : 304 pages Publisher : Scribner Language : ISBN-10 :
36580718-the-verdun-affair ISBN-13 : 9781501191763
Books Descriptions
A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the
aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young
man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds
them together even as it tears them apart.In 1920, two young Americans meet in
Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war
was waged. Tom is an orphan from Chicago, a former ambulance driver now
gathering bones from the battlefield; Sarah is an expatriate from Boston
searching for the husband who wandered off from his division and hasn?t been
seen since. Quickly, the two fall into a complicated affair against the ghostly
backdrop of the ruined city. Months later, Sarah and Tom meet again at the
psychiatric ward of an Italian hospital, drawn there by the appearance of a
mysterious patient the doctors call Douglas Fairbanks (after the silent film
actor) ? a shell-shocked soldier with no memory of who he is. At the hospital,
Tom and
