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This remarkable debut book from Whiting Writers’ Award-Winner John Wray is just a graceful symbol of the living used at among the darkest times in world history.Twenty decades after deserting the army in the very first world war, Oskar Voxlauer returns to the town of his childhood. Haunted by his past, he discovers an uneasy peace in the mountains–but it's Oskar and 1938 can't escape in the increasing wave of Nazi influence around. He tries to escape to the woods, simply to be driven back by their own mind and the chilling conclusion that the girl whose love may ultimately save him will the neighborhood SS leader. Fairly complicated, superbly plotted, and heartbreakingly recognized, The Best Hand of Sleep represents the start of an essential literary profession.