This is a truly beautiful book, epic and grand in scale. Alan Lessik writes in melodic and lyrical style, telling a sweeping tale of love between the world wars, how ordinary people’s lives were so disrupted by the collapse of relations between nations, and indeed how a peace-loving man finds himself tested at every turn, by global events and tragic ones in his own life.
This is much more than simple LGBT romance, and it would be tremendously unfair to categorize it exclusively as such. ...
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