The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau

Author:Stephen Dau [Dau, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781101561058
Publisher: Blue Rider Press
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

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As soon as they are back in the car, Jonas glances through the packet Rose handed to him, and before they are even out of the neighborhood, he begins to form some initial impressions. They are copies of articles clipped from newspapers, and letters, or memos, and photographs.

The photographs hold Jonas’s most immediate attention.

Some of them are black-and-white, and others have been reproduced in color, apparently printed using a newer photocopier. They present varying degrees of clarity. Some of them are more toner smudge than anything else, while others are tack-sharp. They are interspersed among printed-out e-mail and official-looking correspondence. Jonas is struck by the feeling that he has seen them before, if not these exact photographs, then images eerily similar to them. In one photo, a young Christopher stands with his arm around another soldier in front of a tank, starkly silhouetted under a blazing sky. There is a picture of him at some sort of dance or function, in a formal dress uniform, holding hands with a blond-haired girl who is nearly as tall as he is. Another shows him mud-spattered and obviously exhausted, hunched over a picnic table, but managing despite his fatigue to smile up at the camera. Still another shows him wearing a camouflage uniform, with a large duffel slung over his back, making his way up the ramp of a cargo plane.

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