In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twins, agree to forsake their home and family for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure, Gob suffers a change of heart, and Tomo leaves his brother behind. When Tomo is shot clean through the eye in his very first battle, Gob is left to endure the guilt and grief that will later come to fuel his obsession with building a vast machine that will bring Tomo - indeed, all the Civil War dead - back to life.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781847085825
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 278 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 25 mm
A rich concoction of genres and parts, a profound, life-giving elixir, the very stuff of the imagination itself... [It has a] shocking power... Weird vignette follows bravura passage follows profound musing, in what amounts not so much to a novel as a sheer outpouring of writing, an overflow of history, fantasy and fiction - Ian Sansom, Guardian
Adrian's portrait of a nation gone mad with grief is splendid, ambitious and often heartbreaking - Kate Saunders, The Times
Remarkable... utterly different. A work unlike any that has come before it - Economist
[An] ingeniously yet also delicately constructed tale... Vast yet intimate at the same time - Lesley McDowell, Sunday Herald
Impressive, beautifully written... So much more ambitious and profound than most contemporary American fiction - Washington Post
A masterpiece - GQ
Thrilling - Los Angeles Times
Splendid, ambitious and often heartbreaking - Kate Saunders, The Times
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