The Great War

The Great War is told in a wide span of space and time: four years of fighting, every European front, every opposing side. More than seventy characters carry it, crowned heads and revolutionaries, artists and informers, spice sellers, composers and doctors, future dictators, hungry prostitutes and café owners, children and old men, winners and losers, among them real figures such as the poet Dis, King Peter, Mata Hari and Trotsky. Grounded in historical fact yet open to the symbolic, surreal and fantastic, it shows a wounded Europe where nearly everyone is related, uncles attacking nephews and grandfathers facing grandsons, and the collapse of a great hope for humanity's happy future.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

War, Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2012 by Vulkan izdavaštvo

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9781908236203 (Istros Books, United Kingdom)