{"product_id":"small-wars-a-novel-isbn-9780061929892","title":"Small Wars: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“What \u003cem\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/em\u003e shows us, and quite masterfully, is on how many fronts war takes its toll. Love, trust and intimacy in marriage become casualties. But so does war itself—our belief in it, that it’s right and just and necessary; that it solves anything…Told with strikingly clear and muscular prose…Jones’s narration is powerfully restrained, with a great deal of subterranean tension.”  — \u003cem\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet on the colonial, war-torn island of Cyprus in 1956, Sadie Jones tells the story of a young solider, Hal Treherne, and the effects of this “small war” on him, his wife Clara, and their family. Hal is a dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. He is eager to lead his men into combat. Clara, however, is relieved when they are posted instead to seemingly peaceful sun-kissed Cyprus. But war erupts over unification with Greece, the island is consumed by violence—and Hal discovers that his military training cannot help him navigate the minefields of moral compromise that lie beneath every battle he fights. Clara grows fearful of her increasingly distant husband. When she needs him most, she finds the once-tender Hal a changed man—a betrayal that is only part of the shocking personal crisis to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReminiscent of classic tales of love and war such as \u003cem\u003eThe English Patient \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAtonement\u003c\/em\u003e, Jones’s gripping novel also calls to mind the master works of Virginia Woolf and their portrayal of the quiet desperation of a marriage in crisis. \u003cem\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a deeply emotional, meticulously researched work of historical fiction and a profound meditation on war-time atrocities committed both on and off the battlefield. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003ePassionate and brilliantly rendered, \u003cem\u003eSmall Wars\u003c\/em\u003e questions how honor can exist amid cruelty and asks what becomes of intimacy in the grinding gears of empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major in the British Army, Hal Treherne is a dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. He is eager to lead his men into combat; his wife, Clara, however, is relieved when they are posted instead to seemingly peaceful sun-kissed Cyprus. But war erupts over unification with Greece, the island is consumed by violence—and Hal discovers that his military training cannot help him navigate the minefields of moral compromise that lie beneath every battle he fights. Clara grows fearful of her increasingly distant husband. When she needs him most, she finds the once-tender Hal a changed man—a betrayal that is only part of the shocking personal crisis to come. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“What SMALL WARS shows us, and quite masterfully, is on how many fronts war takes its toll. Love, trust and intimacy in marriage become casualties. But so does war itself—our belief in it, that it’s right and just and necessary; that it solves anything…Told with strikingly clear and muscular prose…Jones’s narration is powerfully restrained, with a great deal of subterranean tension.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A taut and transfixing novel… [Jones is] a gifted young author.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Manages to be both rich and sparse…with just enough carefully selected detail to breathe vividness into the novel…In what reads as a quiet, calm work, Jones captures the essence of dehumanized warfare and renders inescapable parallels in a more modern world.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A darkly compelling account of honor and disillusionment with contemporary resonance…a confirmation of [Jones’s] considerable talent.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sadie Jones firmly establishes her gifted and fresh voice.... This book starts out as a tale of love, war and honor and descends gradually into a numb tragedy of disillusionment and shame. Arriving at this particular vertiginous point is another of Jones’s triumphs as a storyteller. She reveals her hand slowly, unpredictably, ultimately cataclysmically…The author does a remarkable job of pinpointing emotional collapse via her clipped and convincing observation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“To this grave account of degradation—from great wars to small, from certainty to doubt, from romance to resignation—Jones brings surprising reserves of energy and finesse.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonna Rifkind, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ambitious and thematically charged…A timely novel, as well as a harrowing one” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ambitious and thematically charged…In SMALL WARS, Jones looks at what happens to decency and personal integrity in the face of a country’s global aspirations. 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