by Jennifer Johnston · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140119510
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«How Many Miles to Babylon?» is the historical novel by Jennifer Johnston, published by Penguin in paperback (160 pages, in English).
In early 20th-century Ireland, Alec and Jerry, from different social classes, become friends through their passion for horses. When World War I breaks out, both enlist in the British army for different reasons and end up on the Flanders front, where the war will test their friendship.
Work originally published in 1974; this Penguin edition is from 1988.
For readers of historical fiction and stories set during World War I.
Jennifer Prudence Johnston was an Irish novelist. She won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012). The Old Jest, a novel about the Irish War of Independence, was later made into a film called The Dawning, starring Anthony Hopkins, produced by Sarah Lawson and directed by Robert Knights.
