The Empire of the Dead Pam Meredith author of The Man Who

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War Remains ventures to the so-called margins to archive the texture and substance rendered invisible when studies of memory rely solely on data furnished by official narratives and military accounts of war

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The Empire of the Dead Pam Meredith author of The Man WhoIn the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for peoplebut at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice. Through a series of five linked stories, we meet Bern, a New York City architect yearning for a return to 'first principles'the 'initial euphoria, the falling in love' that led him to consider a