A Soldier of the Great War

By: Mark Helprin

Fiction

from acclaimed novelist mark helprin, a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.alessandro giuliani, the young son of a prosperous roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in bologna, he falls in love. then the great war...