Books like A God in Ruins
The companion to Life After Life follows a bomber pilot through World War II, exploring the heroism and trauma of the men who flew and the families who waited.
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Life After Life
Ursula Todd is born on a snowy night in 1910 and dies before she can draw breath, and then is born again, and again, living through the century's wars with slightly different choices each time.
Atonement
A thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie that destroys two lives, then spends decades trying to atone through the only tool she has: writing.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
An Italian officer and a Greek woman fall in love on occupied Cephalonia during World War II.
All the Light We Cannot See
Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German orphan with a gift for radios, grow up on opposite sides of World War II until their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo in 1944.
The Whalebone Theatre
In 1928 a whale washes up on the beach below Chilcombe, a crumbling Dorset manor, and Cristabel Seagrave, twelve, and her half-siblings build a theatre out of its bones.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
An Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway endures Japanese captivity and a death march, haunted by a love poem and the question of what makes life bearable.
Brotherless Night
A young medical student in 1980s Jaffna watches her brothers one by one join the Tamil Tigers and takes her own careful path through a civil war she refuses to romanticise.
Schindler's Ark
The true story of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews by employing them in his factories.
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Raja, a philosophy teacher in his sixties, lives in Beirut with his formidable mother, and tells their story through Lebanon's civil war and everything after.
Miracle at St. Anna
Four Black American soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in a Tuscan village during WWII and find shelter with the locals.
Moonglow
On his deathbed, Michael Chabon's grandfather tells him the long-buried story of his life, from hunting Nazi rocket scientists in the war to a stint in prison and his marriage to a troubled French survivor.
Lessons
Roland Baines's whole life, from a boarding school where a piano teacher abuses him to decades of love, loss and compromise across Cold War Europe, in McEwan's most autobiographical novel.