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ISBN10: 0525564675
ISBN13: 9780525564676
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 17 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780525564676
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 17 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From the bestselling author of The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. With echoes of J. M. Coetzee and Graham Greene, this darkly funny novel (The Los Angeles Times) questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace.
An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors from the same company, are sent to finish the highway. While one is flighty and adventurous, wanting to experience the nightlife and people, the other wants only to do the work and go home. But both men must eventually face the absurdities of their positions, and the dire consequences of their presence.
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