Title : In the War - Alice Ferney - book

Summary :

1914. War breaks out, and no one believes it will. No one believes in its duration, in the pain and violence, and no one imagines how many men will perish, how many will return four years later with ineffable terror in their eyes. Young Félicité didn't believe in war either, and now that Jules, her husband, has left, she doesn't believe he might not return. So she waits for him, raising their very young child and doing her peasant work, even as she faces the silent hostility of a jealous mother-in-law.

Félicité and Jules aren't the only protagonists in the drama Alice Ferney depicts in her novel; there's also Prince, their dog. This Collie, unable to understand and bear his master's absence, crosses the whole of France to join him. Arriving at the front, he learns from Jules the art of killing and how to transmit messages when soldiers can't go under fire. The very embodiment of loyalty, Prince then understands how a suffering man lets the beast within him be reborn.

In war, all wars are present. Through these breathless pages, as she makes heard the song of agony of a world reeling under the blows of those who sow blood and despair, Alice Ferney also shows with emotion how new and precious bonds are woven between comrades in arms, between husband and wife, between parents and children, between man and animal. And thus, through this chronicle of desolation, written with grave fervor, she makes us hear in counterpoint another song, a song of love and innocence.

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