Au Revoir Là-Haut by Pierre Lemaitre
I rarely read Goncourt novels, but this is set just after world war one in France, a period I have a fascination for. Edouard and Albert are two (very) broken survivors of the trenches. Edouard is horrendously mutilated, and Albert is completely paranoid. The man who sent them to their death, on the other hand, is grandily profiteering from the post-war cleanup. Two parallel stories that intersect gloriously towards the end. A really good book despite a somewhat lopsided pace (things take ages to speed up and then it's done, kind of thing.) Now I really want to see the movie.
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