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In the Wolf's Mouth

In the Wolf's Mouth

Foulds, Adam

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Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 0374536112
ISBN13: 9780374536114
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: May 3 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Set in North Africa and Sicily at the end of World War II, In the Wolf's Mouth follows the Allies' botched liberation attempts as they chase the Nazis north toward the Italian mainland. Focusing on the experiences of two young soldiers--Will Walker, an English field security officer, ambitious to master and shape events; and Ray Marfione, a wide-eyed Italian-American infantryman--the novel contains some of the best battle writing of the past fifty years. Eloquent on the brutish, blundering inaccuracy of war, the immediacy of Adam Foulds's prose is uncanny and unforgettable.

The book also explores the continuity of organized crime in Sicily through the eyes of two men--Angilù, a young shepherd; and Ciró Albanese, a local mafioso. These men appear in the prologue and in the book's terrifying final chapters, making it evident that the Mafia were there before and are there still, the slaughter of war only a temporary distraction.

In the Wolf's Mouth has achieved an extraordinary resurrection, returning humanity to the lives lost in the writing of history.

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