Title: It is About Suffering and Love
Review: With all due respect to the other reviewers, and while I recognize that this is about the First World War, I would disagree that the book is limited to that time. As other reviewers have stated, it is about a father's love for his son, and his longing to return home. But it is about all war, and about the uncertainty all parents have in a war; about the longing to return, and the uncertainty they will.It is about the unbearable ache in our lives when we long to tell those we care for that it will all be well, when we do not know that it will be well. It is about the tension between the obligation to tell the whole truth (as it is told in the drawings), and to tell only the truth that could be understood (which is written in the letter). This is a beautiful book, and well worth owning, more worth giving.
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