![]() ![]() He has no control over them-memories flick in and out of his consciousness when awake, when dozing off, when sleeping. It’s perhaps more accurate to say that memories of his wife, his daughter, his brother and his parents intrude on his thoughts. He too has seen better days.Ĭharles thinks back on his past. The only two occupants remaining are Charles and the family’s long-time servant, originally employed as a chauffeur but now reduced to a lazy, alcoholic gardener. Born at the turn of the 20th century, his elder brother, their mother’s favored son, died at Gallipoli during the First World War. Their ceaseless disintegration makes an imminent end seem looming. The two are decrepit, falling apart, in need of repair. Both house and man have seen better days. ![]() He is Anglo-Irish, living in his family’s estate worn down by the passage of time. On the plus side, the section after the turn is abruptly cut short by a good ending. Is the turn at the end good? The story becomes less original, less one of a kind. ![]() The turn shifts the book’s focus to a topic widely discussed in contemporary times. I will say only that the turn at the end is a very possible, albeit unfortunate, consequence of earlier events. The story takes a turn at the end which I was not expecting. There's the sotry, that’s it-what is it like to be elderly and what is it like to be this elderly man? His existence is altered by a young boy who barges into his life. First and foremost, The Captains and the Kings is about the existence of an elderly man. ![]()
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