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Those Two
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 30 2025
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Those Two follows Grigory, a 17-year-old soldier in a collapsing war-torn country, and Linus, a suburban teen haunted by quiet disillusionment. Though separated by war and peace, both face invisible wounds and moral reckonings.
Grigory begins with pride, but his illusions about war soon unravel. He witnesses brutality against civilians, meets Erik-a skeptical soldier who questions the regime-and begins to see the war's rot.
Linus, across the ocean, spends his final spring of high school with his best friend Simon. They smoke, joke, and navigate social minefields-prom, girlfriends, legacies. Linus hides from his father's expectations and tries to make sense of privilege, inequality, and the war.
Told in parallel narratives, Those Two explores how empathy can exist between two unknowns, the hunt for love and meaning, and the quiet acts of mercy that survive even in systems built to destroy them. Perhaps most importantly, it is a novel about hunger-both literally and figuratively.
The question is, does Erik and Linus ever meet? No, but perhaps that's the point.Also in
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