Chris Bohjalian at Barnes & Noble Cool Springs
From the "You Think We Have It Bad" Department
by Margaret Renkl
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A context of global warming, economic collapse and perpetual war might not seem like the best incentive to revisit Prussia during the last six months of the Third Reich, but reading Chris Bohjalian's novel Skeletons at the Feast, newly released in paperback, could be just the jolt we need to remember that the world has descended into a far worse hell before. Bohjalian is a supremely gifted storyteller, but the compelling moral complexity of character after character is what makes even this harrowing war novel far more--and far more beautiful--than any mere illustration of hell.
Sat., Feb. 14, 2 p.m., 2009
Sat., Feb. 14, 2 p.m., 2009
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