Used book – Cris, Laurent Gaudé

Their names are Marius, Boris, Ripoll, Rénier, Barboni, and M’Bossolo. In the trenches where they cower, in the dugouts from which they launch themselves with the ebb and flow of assaults, they share the unbearable brotherhood of the 1914 war. Far ahead of them, a gassed man agonizes. Even further away, the horrible cry of a mad soldier, whom they imagine lost between the two front lines, "the pig-man," rings out. In the rear, Jules, the soldier on leave, moves away toward normal life, but the voices of his comrades in arms relentlessly pursue him. They rise like a song, like a memorial of pain and tragic solidarity.