![]() ![]() The Absolutist is a novel that examines the events of the Great War from the perspective of two young privates, both struggling with the complexity of their emotions and the confusion of their friendship. As they stroll through the streets of a city still coming to terms with the end of the war, he recalls his friendship with Will, from the training ground at Aldershot to the trenches of Northern France, and speaks of how the intensity of their friendship brought him from brief moments of happiness and self-discovery to long periods of despair and pain. He’d already been on his own for a year by then and in boot camp, at Aldershot Military Barracks, he’s befriended by a slightly older and much more confident young man named Will. ![]() One that he is desperate to unburden himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage. The Absolutist is the story Tristan Sadler, a young man of only 17 when he enlists in the Army in 1916. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. ![]() Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and was shot as a traitor, an act which has brought shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family. A moving and deeply felt tribute to a love that dared to speak its name. ![]() 20 year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. The Absolutist by John Boyne: 9781635421668 : Books A moving and deeply felt tribute to a love that dared to speak its name.' André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name A new. ![]()
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