All Quiet on the Western Front
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
2,543-word summary · 11 min read
literary fiction + war
5 books tagged both “literary fiction” and “war”.
The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes drifts through Paris bars and Pamplona bullfights with Brett Ashley and a wounded generation.
3,187-word summary · 14 min read
Atonement
A thirteen year old misreads two lovers at a country house in 1935, and her false claim follows all three through war.
2,743-word summary · 12 min read
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Splendid Suns retold: Mariam and Laila share Kabul house, war, Rasheed, escape and return.
1,957-word summary · 9 min read
All the Light We Cannot See
Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See retold: blind Marie-Laure, Werner the radio boy, and Saint-Malo.
1,962-word summary · 9 min read