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The Notebook Trilogy Trilogy

Name: The Notebook Trilogy Trilogy
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ISBN: 9781922253521

Kristof, Agota

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Claus and Lucas are twins. Their new life begins when they are left with their grandmother, the Witch, in a village in an occupied country. Its wartime. All their actions are based on the necessity to survive. They create an exercise regime to toughen up, and record the results in a notebook. Their angelic looks are deceiving. They are implacable, dangerously ethical; their code of life demands that they help a deserter, or blackmail a priest, or come to the aid of a prostitute, or assist in a suicide. What motivates them is a deeply embedded morality of absolute need. The trilogy The Notebook (1986), The Proof (1988), and The Third Lie (1991)follows their stories from the Second World War, through the years of communism and into a fractured Europe. In what could be seen as an allegory of post-war Europe, Claus and Lucas, locked in a tortuous bond, become separated and are isolated in different countries. They yearn to be connected again, but...

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2022

Publisher:

The Text Publishing Company

Language:

English

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1922253529

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9781922253521