<B>THE REMARKABLE NEW WORK OF FICTION FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF <I>LAST ORDERS</I>, <I>WATERLAND</I>, <I>HERE WE ARE</I> and <I>MOTHERING SUNDAY<BR/><BR/>'</I>The Booker Prize winner traces a tender and moving web of connections across decades', <I>Financial Times<BR/>'</I></B><B>A brilliant, illuminating collection of short fiction, perhaps the author's best’, <I>Kirkus<BR/>'</I>These stories, depth charges of love, anguish, resentment, each in their way relating to the effects of WW2, are so good. Swift at his best – and he’s on top form here – has the humanity and wry humour of William Trevor’ Patrick Gale</B><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/> In the aftermath of the Second World War Private Joseph Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members; in the 1960s a father focuses on his daughter’s wedding even as the Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the bri