Outside the House of Baal Ivan Strpka In their brevity

In their brevity

David Grossman

Kamila Shamsie

it becomes clear that friendship is the lastthing on the hot-blooded young prince’s mind

Lennart Sjögren

Outside the House of Baal Ivan Strpka In their brevitySpanning the twentieth century, Outside the House of Baal is the story of the conflict between public duty and personal love. In the course of a day J. T. Miles looks back over his life, a "Good Man" confronted by the choices of living. He is forced to contemplate the modern world (of which he feels no part) and his betrayal of his Welsh speaking heritage; the unsuitability of his marriage and his relationship with the woman who now shares his house;