Most critics found this effort successful, commenting on how the novel, like many other WWI novels, thematically focuses on how the experience of trauma shapes individual psyches. The plot follows two main characters living at different times: the first is Stephen Wraysford, a British soldier on the front line in Amiens during the First World War, and the second is his granddaughter, Elizabeth Benson, whose 1970s plotline follows her attempts to recover an understanding of Stephen's experience of the war.įaulks developed the novel to bring more public awareness to the experience of war remembered by WWI veterans. Birdsong is a 1993 war novel and family saga by the English author Sebastian Faulks.
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