In Memoriam

A Novel

De: Alice Winn

Narrado por: Christian Coulson

GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” —Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait

A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR

“In Memoriam is the story of a great tragedy, but it is also a moving portrait of young love.”—The New York Times

It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting.

Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle—an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood—without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt's horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next.

An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.

©2023 Alice Winn (P)2023 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

2023, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize: Long-listed

2024, VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize: Winner

A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, and Spectator

"Magnificent—dazzling and wrenching, witty and wildly romantic, with echoes of Brideshead Revisited and Atonement. I loved it.” —Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians

“An epic love story amid the brutalities of war.” —People

“Glorious, addictive, exquisite . . . I couldn’t put it down.” —Hugh Ryan, New York Times Book Review

Outstanding

I felt really lost with my thoughts when it was over.

Great performance, reading the names in the school newspaper was so bleak.

New all time favorite. 11/10 would recommend

I already want to reread this and annotate the physical copy I ordered.
I can’t believe this is a debut. The writing is beautiful and vivid without being flowery. So many lines were like an emotional gut punch, heart wrenching.
Excellent character work, tight pacing, evocative setting. And all impeccably narrated.

I feel like writing a thank you letter to Alice Winn

For years I’ve looked for exactly this book. Thank you thank you!! I’m
Going to go recommend it on TikTok now.

The vivid characters

I was surprised that I could be drawn in to a story about WWI with its grim description of the horrors of war. But the novel paints beautiful characters and I couldn’t resist!

Unforgettable love story and tribute to the young men who gave their lives in WW1

A great story that I will listen to again as well as reread. I loved the characters in this book. I look foreward to reading more from Alice Winn

Superb!!

Great writing is such a miracle. The overarching narrative is terrific, of course, but Winn has such an ear for dialogue and an extraordinary skill in describing scenes. Also, the book is so beautifully read by Coulson.

Amazing

This book is unbelievably fantastic.
The characters are extremely Three dimensional and you love them in spite of their faults. The history is well researched and incredibly well described. Definitely A contender for my ten favorite books list!

Devastatingly beautiful

Against the backdrop of The Grewt War is a much quieter but deeper battle the two men at the center of this gorgeous book fight, both against themselves and each other. Winn handles it all with wit, poetry, and no small amount of brutal truth and emotion.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

The historical romance

Beautiful romance with a somber but hopeful ending, a well told story that illustrates the atrocities and reality of war

I don’t know how to feel

I loved reading it and I hated it. I don’t know how to feel about it, I need a couple days to process what I just read.

As a person who is not interested in war stories, Gaunt and Ellewood’s story will stay with me for some time, holy shit. I didn’t expect so many of their friends to die along the way. And poor Ellewood, he definitely had a harder time. I hope he can heal with Gaunt in Brazil

Be prepared for a lot of death. And sadness. But also some happiness. And for anyone who thinks Ellewood doesn’t love Gaunt anymore, clearly didn’t read close enough. I would love a sequel of them healing and growing old together, Jesus they’re only 21 in the ending.