Richard Marius: After the War, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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A morally rigorous American "blockbuster" (San Francisco Chronicle) about survival, aftermath, and the quiet violence history leaves behind.

In the aftermath of World War II, Paul Alexander arrives in a small Tennessee town carrying scars no one can see. The town, too, bears its own marks, obsessed with the past and divided into two factions: those supporting the building of a railroad foundry and those championing an earlier, more agrarian era.

At first, the rhythms of Southern life feel merely unfamiliar: the slow pace of days, the surface politeness, the unspoken hierarchies that govern every exchange. But as Paul is drawn deeper into the lives around him---all while grappling with an unhappy marriage---he begins to sense that something unresolved is pressing just beneath the surface.

The war, he realizes, has not ended. What unfolds is a slow-burning racial and economic reckoning, a town's fragile equilibrium giving way under the weight of a secret it has long refused to confront. When violence finally erupts, it arrives with both shocking force and grim inevitability.