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“[A] potent literary novel . . . A deft portrait of an estranged couple whose pain is veiled by the fog of war.” —People

From the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to the strange, shimmering streets of Istanbul, The Last War is a “seductive meditation” (O, The Oprah Magazine) on cruelty and violence, love and identity from Pushcart Prize-winning author Ana

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Book ID Asin: 0061724777
Book Title: The Last War: A Novel
Book Author: Ana Menendez
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The Last War: A Novel by Ana Menendez Book Review

Name: S. McGee
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: All this time what I've been recording is the end of desire."
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2009
Review: 4.5 stars.
In Ana Menendez's beautifully and elegantly written novel, the wars that "Flash" and her husband Brando (aka "Wonderboy") have covered become the backdrop to a domestic war dividing them in spirit even more than they are becoming divided in fact and in experience. Brando heads off to Iraq to cover yet another war and the early stages of the insurgency, chronicling the growing violence for the newspaper for which he writes. Flash, a photographer, remains in their new apartment in Istanbul, doing isolated freelance assignments (such as photographing Ottoman tombs) but mostly wandering the city and wondering what has happened to her life. "We were the war junkies: Eros and Chaos, endlessly drawn to the ragged margins where other people hated and died. It was as if we believed constant movement would deliver us finally from the disappointments of an ordinary life." War, she realizes, has been the bond between her and `Wonderboy'. "In Sri Lanka, we lay beneath mosquito netting for the first time and listened to bombs falling in the distance. When I slipped out of bed to shoot from the window, he yelled: It's dangerous! In Kargil, the crashing was a little closer, the road that took us there more perilous. At night, the hotel windows rattled from the concussions. In Kashmir, for the first time, he said the sound of shelling just over the hills sounded beautiful, like summer."

But now Flash feels everything is slipping out of control. The technical demands of her profession have changed; she must adapt to new digital camera technologies. That's the easy part, however. She's increasingly wondering whether wandering from one conflict to the next, chronicling death and disaster, is the life she wants to live or whether she is simply being towed along in Brando's wake. Is it making her too emotionally distant, as a friend claims? Then, one day a letter arrives for Flash in Istanbul, claiming that Wonderboy is having an affair with a woman in Iraq, a letter that causes a domestic cold war to flare even as the shooting war in Iraq heats up. An emotional distance builds between the couple, one that will have unexpected consequences for everyone.

The plot here isn't one that will satisfy a reader looking for dramatic events and larger-than-life characters. It's essentially a book revolving around Flash and her introspection, written in the first person. But for the most part it's nuanced and thoughtful, to the point where at times the reader begins to wonder, along with Flash, what is reality and what may be stress-induced hallucinations or delusions. There are a couple of bumpy spots that prevented me from awarding this startlingly-good novel a fifth star. Its final section feels rushed and abrupt, with the two major plot twists that feel a bit contrived. The other is some of the dialogue, particularly that of Flash's `friend', Alexandra. The ornate writing is appropriate for Flash's stream of consciousness, but less so for dialogue like this, when Alexandra confronts her with her shortcomings: "Take one Flash, average-looking woman, icy in her own way. Falls in love with dashing, gorgeous, remote Boy Wonder. He, a master of words; she, involved with the surface of things, with small frozen moments, disconnected story lines." Or, later, ""Life--a genuine life--is about fighting the dulling influence of adaptation." It's beautiful writing, but unconvincing and unnatural dialogue.

That said, this is still a gem of a novel, replete with some of the most beautiful language I've read in many months, as well as witty observations ("an American-style supermarket was just the thing to restore a sense of order and optimism"). It's a story of different kinds of domestic conflict and personal/internal conflict set against a larger and unseen violent war.

Recommended to readers who value powerful characters and language and who is looking for a novel jam-packed with ideas and images rather than dramatic action.

Name: Eric Selby
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Unique perspective
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2009
Review: Not nearly enough has been written about the courage exhibited by those who are sent to war-torn countries to provide the rest of us accounts of what is actually happening or has happened in these places. I want to write a different type of "review" because I know, although not well, the author who is very much missed as a columnist at The Miami Herald. So I also know that this novel is based upon her own experiences, not as a war correspondent because, to my knowledge, she was not. But as the wife of a New York Times journalist, Dexter Filkins, who spent the first few years of the horror inflicted upon the Iraqi people. This is a poignant novel, told from the point of view of Flash, the woman married to another journalist and tells the story not only of the war but of what happens to relationships when circumstances change the path a married couple thought they would be traveling together. Ana is a remarkable writer, and it shines through in this novel.

Name: Barbara Fischkin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ana Menendez' finest work
Date: Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2009
Review: The Last War is an extraordinarily searing book. It is set against the background of war and while it illuminates that, it also takes us deep into the nuances of isolation, marriage, friendship and ambivalence. While this is a book about foreign correspondents, it will also be deeply familiar to those who have "merely" traveled in the land of marriage. Or fought with themselves over whether or not to take the exciting fork in the road, or the one that might be safer. The Last War is a spare book of 225 pages - and yet in those pages it explains much of the core of human nature.

Name: Ellie
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Unsatisfying read about a selfish, self-centered woman.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2010
Review: The Lost War was disappointing at best. Having lived overseas, including in war zone situations, I hoped the author would touch upon the complexities of life in these unique microenvironments. However, the novel focused on the narrator, Flash, who was disjointed and had incomprehensible motives. The story opens with Flash describing her life in Istanbul, one of the worlds most vibrant cities, and the marriage that led her to this point. Flash described Istanbul and her activities with lackluster ennui, sharing her unhappiness with the reader, but not her motives. Flash is clearly unsatisfied with the status quo, but doesn't bother to explain why. Her husband, a war correspondent, is in Iraq shortly after the US invasion. She's awaiting accreditation to join him in her role as a photo journalist. As with every element of her life, she is indifferent and unconnected to the job that has theoretically led her around the world and into frequent danger.

In this limbo, Flash receives an anomnyous letter that her husband is cheating and her world falls apart. She spends the majority of the rest of the book drinking wine and talking with Alexandra, a friend from a previous assignment. Alexandra, has left her husband, described as trying to steal her wildness, and embarked into the post-conflict ex-pat chaos. Flash seems envious of Alexandra's freedom, yet takes no action to sieze her own. The story alternates between the present, wine-laden days of inaction in Istanbul and Taliban Afghanistan, where Flash, her husband and Alexandra had all worked together. The only strong thread is Flash's unhappiness and dissatisfaction, laced with occasion notes to emphasize that war is bad. Eventually, Flash is set free through an uncomfortable plot point, only to yet again fail to take advantage of her freedom, and ultimately learn that her husband wasn't the terrible character she painted in her mind. She leaves again, to continue her aimless drift through life.

Flash's disconnection from everything in her life made it impossible to care about her. She's the daughter of Dominican immigrants, but showed no interest in or connection to that history and culture. She was a photo-journalist, but was uninterested in her career. She percieved that she'd given up everything for a husband that through her own recollections, she never seemed to love. She fought for nothing and eventually ended up with nothing. I had hoped the story would show the difficulties of transitioning between the "normal" world and conflict and post-conflict realities, the strange experiences of an expats life abroad, even the difficulties of living through war, in the strange position of a civilian observer, but Flash's selfish preocuptation with her own dissatisfaction - a dissatisfaction she never took the effort to analyze or try to fix - kept her from connecting to the world around her and sharing elements of her journey which could have been interesting with the reader.