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Wartime Lies

(1991)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1992 PEN/Hemingway Award
1991 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist)
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee)

A haunting, unforgettable novel about an orphaned boy and his gallant aunt, and how, assuming false identities, they survive the horrors of war. Louis Begley's extraordinary novel is a work of wisdom and lyric power about the complex, terrifying process of growing up when the adult world has become insane.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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