Twelve Post-War Tales
By Graham Swift
★★★★★★★★½☆ 8.5/10
256 pages
What’s it about?
This is a collection of twelve short stories that are all connected in some way to the end of World War II.
What did it make me think about?
What beautiful writing!
Should I read it?
Well, this collection grew on me. Graham Swift's writing is both thoughtful and appealing. However, these stories are more character studies than plot-driven. The longer I read, the more I appreciated all the subtleties. Be aware that these stories are both beautifully written and slow-going.
A passage I marked
"And at some point in their lives, something else had happened to the world. It had, of course got older, yet it had got younger. It had suddenly got young. Thirty-five had once been the traditional mid-point of life. Not anymore. My God, to be over the hill at thirty-five! At thirty-five you could still be waiting to be grown-up and a parent. You could still feel eighteen. Or five."
