Book 18: "The Ghost Road" by Pat Barker
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kittiwakePrior peered into the small looking-glass behind the wash-basin, checking the knot in his tie. If they didn't send him back he was going to be awfully lonely, marooned among civilians with their glib talk.
As the end of World War I approaches, and while men are still dying in France, the Spanish influenza epidemic is taking hold back home. Rivers spends a lot of time thinking back to his time as an anthropologist in Melanesia. He was studying a tribe on Eddystone Island, who had only recently given up headhunting at the insistence of the colonial powers and whose attitude towards death was very different to the Europeans.
A strong end to a brilliant trilogy.
As the end of World War I approaches, and while men are still dying in France, the Spanish influenza epidemic is taking hold back home. Rivers spends a lot of time thinking back to his time as an anthropologist in Melanesia. He was studying a tribe on Eddystone Island, who had only recently given up headhunting at the insistence of the colonial powers and whose attitude towards death was very different to the Europeans.
A strong end to a brilliant trilogy.
