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It's September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War, but in 1917 Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He holds a secret deep in his soul. One that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage. As he recalls his friendship with Will, from the training ground at Aldershot to the trenches of Northern France, he speaks of how the intensity of their friendship brought him both happiness and self-discovery as well as despair and pain. "The Absolutist" is a novel that examines the events of the Great War from the perspective of two young soldiers, both struggling with the complexity of their emotions and the confusion of their friendship.
- Sales Rank: #1702034 in Books
- Published on: 2011-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.45" h x 1.18" w x 6.38" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2012: Disowned by his family due to an ill-advised kiss, Tristan Sadler enlists in the English army, hoping to prove himself on the battlefield but instead finding an unlikely lover. What begins as a slow-building World War I period piece (“Steady on, old chap”) grows deeper, more curious, and uneasy as it progresses--and midway through this sad and beautiful story, you realize you’re in the hands of a quiet master. Piling questions atop half-truths, John Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) has crafted a taut and tragic tale of love and war, with a kick-in-the-gut ending. The scenes in the trenches--“beneath the ground like cadavers"--are horrifying. So is the macho intolerance and fear of anyone who dares question the moral imperative of the terrible war, the alleged cowards and so-called “feather men.” --Neal Thompson
Guest Review by John IrvingI became an admirer of John Boyne’s writing with his first novel, The Thief of Time.
His latest, The Absolutist, is a novel of immeasurable sadness, in a league with Graham Greene's The End of the Affair and a no less masterful handling of the first-person narrative voice than Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table.
Boyne is very, very good at portraying the destructive power of a painfully kept secret —not to mention the damage done by the self-recriminations (and other condemnations) that are released when that secret is revealed.
The Absolutist is one of those great stories that is not what it first seems, though what the story appears to be is a powerful enough premise to begin any novel: a young soldier, returning from World War One, is traveling from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to the grieving sister of a fallen comrade.
We presume that the worst of what has happened is what we already know or have imagined of those trenches in northern France. (Boyne is also very, very good at historical fiction; The Absolutist begins in September 1919.) But the young soldier, who is twenty-one, has something to confess; this is a forbidden love story, a gay love story, but one with a terrible twist.
Review
"Extraordinary...The narrative is by turns surprising and tragic in equal measure while its troubling conclusion will stay with readers long after they've closed the book." Carlo Gebler "Powerful, poignant and beautifully written. This will become a classic war novel." The Bookseller "Compulsive, stylish and gripping" Reader's Digest "A wonderful, sad, tender book." Colm Toibin "John Boyne brings a completely fresh eye to the most important stories. He guides us through the realm of history and makes the journey substantial, poignant and real. He is one of the great craftsmen in contemporary literature." Colum McCann
About the Author
John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of seven novels. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas won two Irish Book Awards and the Penguin Orange Readers' Group Prize. It was shortlisted for the British Book Award and was made into a Miramax feature film. His novels are published in over 40 languages. He lives in Dublin. www.johnboyne.com
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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding book
By Jay C. Pack
Have you ever read a book that so upset you, so pissed you off, that you kept thinking-well when I finish this; I am going to write to this author and give him a piece of my mind, and then you realize that the piece of your mind that you want to give him is that he has written a book-that has in it's transformative power, touched you at the most raw places in your mind and heart? Such was my experience with "The Absolutist" by John Boyne, an Irish writer most well known for his bestselling children's book "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." This is a book that is difficult to fit into a specific niche. Although there is a sexual relationship between two men, it can in no way be neatly packed away into the genre "Gay Literature." "A War Story", yes perhaps, but not one that hits you in the face like, let's say "All Quiet on the Western Front." No this writer is far too good for the direct hit approach; he instead relies on the slow sly systems used to write a good novel, the building of character and plot through action and description and suggestions. There is a scene in the book which I read through the veil of my tears where one knows that there can be no good outcome, but Mr. Boyne skillfully keeps you out there on the skinny branches, hoping against hope that something will happen that will change the probable consequences, but when the inevitable comes to fruition, you have the feeling of being sucker punched in the gut. At the end of the day, it can best be described as "A Morality Tale", but oh what a tale is told along the way. This is not a book that I will find easy to have in person discussions about, it took charge of a part of my heart that I am pretty sure will make it all but impossible to discuss without, quite frankly, losing it. I am an avid reader, averaging 40-50 books a year, and one of the reasons that I am compelled to keep reading as much as I do is that every once in a while something comes along that is so extraordinary, so thought provoking that it makes me realize that I have to reorganize my list of the best books that I have ever read. "The Absolutist" by John Boyne is such a book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
War makes monsters of men.
By nevina
Lord, what a traumatic read this is. John Boyne's understated writing expertly evokes the hell that was a soldiers life in the trenches of world war 1.
Tristan, returned from the war, goes to visit the sister of his fallen friend, Will Bancroft. Ostensibly to return some letters to her but really to tell her the story of her brothers war. I was engaged and invested from the first line. I could see it all, the insanity of war, the awful conditions and events, senseless loss of life, and the terrible grief and shame of those left behind. Slowly a story more horrific than the living conditions of the men involved could ever be was revealed. I was absolutely stunned by the way things turned out for Will. Jaw droppingly stunned. If ever there was a book that brilliantly portrays how war makes monsters of men then this is it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The best book about war
By David Pagan
John Boyne is a variable author - some of his books are brilliant, some not so good. This one is in the first category. He uses a gay encounter to drive the narrative but this is NOT a gay book.
Two volunteers training at Aldershot prior to being shipped to the front circa 1916 have a brief gay liaison which means more to one of them than to the other. At the front they experience very different destinies and the survivor returns home with letters written to the other by his sister which he arranges to return to the lady.
The book skips between the past (the war) and the present, 1919 and the story unfolds. What is cowardice ? Do the peace- time rules and standards apply in war ? Who are we to judge what a person does in the madness of war ? All of the arguments are presented very subtly and it is a very good, if harrowing, read.
I had always seen Pat Barker as the great WW1 writer; this is better than anything she has written.
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