02550cam a2200433 i 4500 2171197305 TxAuBib 20250501120000.0 250423s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593803387 $30.00 0593803388 $30.00 TxAuBib rda Swift, Graham, 1949-, author. Twelve post-war tales / Graham Swift. 12 post-war tales. First hardcover edition. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. 289 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Table of Contents: The next best thing -- Blushes -- Chocolate -- Beauty -- Zoo -- Hinges -- Fireworks -- Kids -- Black -- Palace -- Bruises -- Passport. Here are the soldiers and doctors and veterans, wives and lovers and children, who have been affected in ways both subtle and profound by the cataclysms of our times. In the aftermath of World War II, a young Jewish private, stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members. In the 1960s, a father focuses on his daughter’s wedding even as the Cuban Missile Crisis approaches the brink of global disaster. On September 11th, a maid working for U.S. Embassy staff in London wonders if her birth on the day of the Kennedy assassination determined the course of her life. And at the height of pandemic lockdown, a respiratory disease specialist comes out of retirement and is faced with a formative childhood memory. These stories show history in the making, the reverberations of each personal loss and triumph set across the sweep of decades. Tender, humane, rich with humor, grief and moments of grace and contemplation, Twelve Post-War Tales is a collection of masterpieces in miniature. 20250516. World War II 1939-1945 Fiction. World War II 1939-1945. Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 Fiction. Cuban Missile Crisis 1962. Anthologies. Pandemics Fiction. Veterans Fiction. Germany Fiction. Short stories. Historical fiction 20th Century - Post-World War II. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. 1950's Fiction. Historical fiction. 20th Century World War II & Holocaust. BTCLS