by Susan Hill · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140036954
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«Strange Meeting» is Susan Hill's war novel set in World War I, published by Penguin in paperback (192 pages, in English).
John Hilliard, a British officer, returns to the Western Front after sick leave and discovers that his battalion has changed completely. Despite being a reserved man, he strikes up an unexpected friendship with David Barton, a cheerful recruit who has not yet fought. As they approach the front line and death, that relationship becomes a refuge from the horror of war.
«Strange Meeting» was originally published in 1971; this Penguin edition is from 1976. The cover indicates that Susan Hill was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
A novel for readers of historical and literary fiction about World War I, focused on the friendship between two soldiers.
Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for stage and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
