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5.0
Warning: The introduction is 30% as long as the book and lists all the major plot points. Don't read it first.
This was a gorgeous, devastating book about World War I from the German side. Young men in a closed community of wounded soldiers, shot in the throat and breathing through silver tubes in their necks, and their love for each other, and their closeness. A book about four men together where words are barely spoken. The military order of the hospital for men who maintain that order although they're unable to fight.
Loved it.
This was a gorgeous, devastating book about World War I from the German side. Young men in a closed community of wounded soldiers, shot in the throat and breathing through silver tubes in their necks, and their love for each other, and their closeness. A book about four men together where words are barely spoken. The military order of the hospital for men who maintain that order although they're unable to fight.
Loved it.
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