Twelve Post-War Tales by Swift, Graham

Author: Swift, Graham

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 8 May 2025 by Simon & Schuster Ltd (Scribner UK) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 304 pages
216 x 135 |

THE REMARKABLE NEW WORK OF FICTION FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS, WATERLAND, HERE WE ARE and MOTHERING SUNDAY ‘The Booker Prize winner traces a tender and moving web of connections across decades’,Financial Times ‘A brilliant, illuminating collection of short fiction, perhaps the author’s best’,Kirkus ‘These stories, depth charges of love, anguish, resentment, each in their way relating to the effects of WW2, are so good. Swift at his best and he’s on top form here has the humanity and wry humour of William Trevor’Patrick Gale In the aftermath of the Second World War Private Joseph Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members; in the 1960s a father fo