Borders : a novel

Resource Information

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Label

Borders : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Roy Jacobsen ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw

Creator

• Jacobsen, Roy, 1954-

Author

• Jacobsen, Roy, 1954-

Subject

• Germany, Heer | Armee, 6. -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
• Nationalism -- Fiction
• Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Fiction
• Veterans -- Fiction
• War fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
• Stalingrad, Battle of, Volgograd, Russia, 1942-1943 -- Fiction
• Germany, Heer | Armee, 6 -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• War fiction
• Fiction

Language

• eng
• nor
• eng

Summary

The Ardennes, a forested, mountainous borderland that spans France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, was crucial to Hitler's invasion of France and host to the Battle of the Bulge. In a small valley among these borders lives Robert, born of an affair between an American GI and the Belgian nurse who rescued him. In his father's absence, Robert finds a mentor in Markus Hebel, who has faked blindness ever since serving as a Wehrmacht radio operator in Russia. Markus, in turn, confides his secret to Robert--and then he tells the story of his own son, whose fanatical loyalty to Hitler left him trapped during the siege of Stalingrad. In Borders, Roy Jacobsen brilliantly layers these stories of impossible choices between familial love and national identity, culminating in a nuanced, probing novel of shifting wartime loyalties

Member of

• Grenser

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

839.823/74

Index

no index present

LC call number

PT8951.2.A385

LC item number

G7413 2016

Literary form

fiction