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Postcards from No Man's Land

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Series
  
Dance Sequence

Publication date
  
7 January 1999

Originally published
  
7 January 1999

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Language
  
English

Publisher
  
The Bodley Head

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Author
  
Aidan Chambers

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Followed by
  
This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

Genres
  
Young adult fiction, War story

Awards
  
Carnegie Medal, Michael L. Printz Award

Preceded by
  
Dance on My Grave, Now I Know and the Toll Bridge

Similar
  
Aidan Chambers books, Carnegie Medal winners

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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. It was the fifth of six novels in the series Chambers calls "The Dance Sequence", which he inaugurated in 1978 with Breaktime.

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Chambers won the annual Carnegie Medal, from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. 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".

Postcards from No Man's Land was first published in the U.S. by Dutton in 2002. There it won the Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association recognising the year's best book for young adults.

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."

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Postcards from No Man's Land Wikipedia