{"product_id":"fields-of-glory-9781611457018","title":"Fields of Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean Rouaud\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the Prix Goncourt \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA \u003c\/i\u003eNew York Times\u003ci\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe setting may be the rainy lower Loire Valley of the 1950s, but it is the WW I battlefields of Artois, Meuse, Lorraine, and Yser that form the emotional backdrop to this poignant testament to the vitality of life that death cannot dim. \u003ci\u003eFields of Glory\u003c\/i\u003e begins as a collection of utterly charming reminiscences of the eccentricities of family elders told by an unnamed and indeterminately aged narrator. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn pure and graceful prose, Rouaud describes crotchety grandfather Burgaud with his equally difficult car, a cramped and leaky CV2, and maiden great-aunt Marie with her card file of saints--A prefatory catalogue of terrifying symptoms refers the reader to the saint specializing in the corresponding disorder. The work of a lifetime. It is in the midst of this comedy of daily life that the melancholy subtext of three generations slowly emerges: the stories of the two young men who were casualties of the Fields of Glory and the family that remains to remember them.","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45354632052887,"sku":"9781611457018","price":782.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781611457018.webp?v=1767669867","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fields-of-glory-9781611457018","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}