Postcards from No Man's Land
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Front cover of first edition
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| Author | Aidan Chambers |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dance Sequence |
| Genre | Young-adult fiction, war novel |
| Publisher | The Bodley Head |
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Publication date
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7 January 1999 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 336 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-370-32376-9 |
| OCLC | 477161980 |
| LC Class | PZ7.C3557 Po 2002[1] |
| Preceded by | The Toll Bridge |
| Followed by | This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn |
Postcards from No Man's Land is a young-adult novel by Aidan Chambers, published by Bodley Head in 1999. Two stories are set in Amsterdam during 1994 and 1944. One features 17-year-old visitor Jacob Todd during the 50-year commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem, in which his grandfather fought; the other features 19-year-old Geertrui late in the German occupation of the Netherlands.[2][3] It was the fifth of six novels in the series Chambers calls "The Dance Sequence", which he inaugurated in 1978 with Breaktime.[4]
Chambers won the annual Carnegie Medal, from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[3] In 2001 The Guardian named it one of ten books recommended for teenage boys, and called it a "seriously good and compulsively readable novel that spans 50 years and two interwoven stories of love, betrayal and self-discovery".[5]
Postcards from No Man's Land was first published in the U.S. by Dutton in 2002.[1] There it won the Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association recognising the year's best book for young adults.[6][lower-alpha 1]
WorldCat reports that Postcards is the work by Chambers most widely held in participating libraries, by a wide margin.
One library catalogue record recommends Postcards for American "senior high school" students and the British librarians call it a "sophisticated book for older teenagers. Issues of euthanasia and sexual identity are raised. This is an emotionally and intellectually challenging book and one that lingers in the mind."[3]
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External links
- Postcards from No Man's Land in libraries (WorldCat catalog) —immediately, first US edition
- Reviews of Postcards from No Man's Land reprinted by the author
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| Preceded by | Carnegie Medal recipient 1999 |
Succeeded by The Other Side of Truth |
| Preceded by | Michael L. Printz Award Winner 2003 |
Succeeded by The First Part Last |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Postcards from no man's land" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 (Carnegie Winner 1999). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ↑ "The Dance Sequence", Aidan Chambers, Aidan Chambers. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ↑ "10 reads for the teenage bloke". The Guardian, 9 October 2001.
- ↑ "Michael L. Printz Winners and Honor Books". Young Adult Library Services Association. ALA. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
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