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At The Week magazine Ondaatje tagged six favorite books about war, including:
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)Read about the other entries on the list.
Two men, emotionally damaged, return to a small English town after the First World War. The central character is hired to restore a church mural, and as the plot unfolds and the ancient mural becomes visible, the two men's stories become profoundly interconnected.
--Marshal Zeringue