Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Twelve moving novels of the Second World War

At Off the Shelf Caitlin Kleinschmidt tagged twelve moving novels of the Second World War, including:
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

During a snowstorm in 1910, a baby is born. She dies before she can draw her first breath. During a snowstorm in 1910, the same baby is born and lives. What if there were an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you be able to save the world from its own destiny? What power can one woman exert over the fate of civilization as she lives through the turbulent events of the twentieth century again and again?
Read about the other entries on the list.

Life After Life is among Jenny Shank's top five innovative novels that mess with chronology, Dell Villa's top twelve books from 2013 to give your mom, and Judith Mackrell's five best young fictional heroines in coming-of-age novels.

--Marshal Zeringue