The Wars
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Wars is a 1977 novel by the Canadian writer Timothy Findley, winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, set during World War I and later adapted as a film. Pieced together by an unnamed researcher from photographs, letters and interviews, the novel tells the story of Robert Ross, a sensitive young Canadian from a wealthy Toronto family who enlists after his sister's death and serves as an officer in the trenches of Flanders, where he commits an act of rebellion that ends in tragedy.
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- Margaret Atwood: “Listed among her favourite books in The Pleasure of Reading (1992), reprinted by The Telegraph.”