By Lisa L. Hannett
No one understands while the conflict opposed to the greys begun. There are theories, speculations, however the basically certainties are air-raids, abductions, internal urban explosions. attacks are never-ending, rapid and deadly; the enemy’s stealth unsurpassed. Whispers have circulated for hundreds of years, suggestions spinning from minds in seen wordwinds, transparent for all to learn, to wield, to scouse borrow. the place are the greys? whilst will they subsequent strike? how are you going to assault anything you cannot see? And secretly, fearfully: Are the greys even real?
Spanning many years, LAMENT FOR THE AFTERLIFE follows one guy as he negotiates the opposed territory of lifestyles after wrestle. Peytr Borysson comes from an extended line of infantrymen, yet isn’t born for battling. His ’wind is best formed for poetry than bullets. nevertheless, at 16 he follows the neighborhood boys into conflict — and not really leaves.
Interweaving Peytr’s struggles with these of his relatives, Lament for the Afterlife takes readers to the frontlines and much past, telling a narrative of normal humans persisting in amazing conditions. a unique of human survival, guilt, and the devastating energy of reminiscence, Lament for the Afterlife examines the actual and mental distances we go back and forth whilst ideals are threatened—or held too tightly.
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