Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks • 1993
Devastation Rating
war love loss historical trauma
Our Take
The tunnels. Always the tunnels. Faulks writes the First World War with such physical intimacy that the mud and darkness feel personal. Stephen Wraysford loves badly and survives worse, and the novel moves between love and annihilation without ever letting you breathe. The trenches have never felt so underground.
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