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Richard Bausch Wins 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

September 22nd, 2009

Peace
by Richard Bausch

Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction

“Brilliant.”
The New York Times Book Review

Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. As they climb, the old man’s indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. Peace is a feat of storytelling from one of America’s most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.

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