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    Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict
    Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict
    Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict
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    Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict

    By Vanessa Gebbie

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    Storm Warning is the latest collection from award-winning writer Vanessa Gebbie, described as 'prodigiously gifted' by novelist Maggie Gee. It explores the echoes of human conflict in a series of powerful stories inspired by life with the author's own father, who fought and was decorated in WWII, but suffered the after-effects for the rest of his life.
    Conflict is often explored from the child's perspective and ranges from conventional warfare to historical religious persecution. War veterans are haunted by events that echo louder and louder, and eventually break them. A prisoner sees the violent execution of a friend and mentor, a boy hides from a necklacing, a young student escapes the fighting in Iraq in the hope of continuing his education in the West and a woman tells what she knows of her parents' torture.
    The people in these stories are not those who go down in history, but ordinary troops, the powerless, caught up involuntarily. All are tested, sometimes to breaking point, in this extraordinary collection as Gebbie explores the surreality of conflict and the after-effects of atrocity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSalt
    Release dateOct 15, 2015
    ISBN9781844718689
    Storm Warning: Echoes of Conflict
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    Vanessa Gebbie

    Vanessa Gebbie is the author of two collections of stories and contributing editor of a creating writing text book. She has won numerous awards - including prizes at Bridport, Fish and the Willesden Herald (the latter judged by Zadie Smith) - for her short fiction. An extract from The Coward's Tale, her first novel, won the Daily Telegraph 'Novel in a Year' Competition. Vanessa Gebbie is Welsh and lives in Sussex.

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