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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Matched by shared attributes: dark & gritty tone, War and Love themes, slow burn pacing, and the same quality of prose.
A young Marine lieutenant leads his platoon through the jungle hills of Vietnam, where the greatest danger is not always the enemy.
A young German soldier describes the First World War from the inside -- not as heroism but as systematic destruction of everything that makes a person human.
A love affair in pre-war France and the trenches of the First World War, spanning decades and generations.
Five Russian aristocratic families navigate the Napoleonic Wars, and Tolstoy uses their lives to argue about history, fate, and what any of us can actually know about why things happen.
A Russian doctor and poet is swept through revolution, civil war, and exile, sustained only by a love affair that the twentieth century conspires to destroy.
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