Shuttlecock by Graham Swift
A police department archivist, drifting toward a breakdown, is drawn into office power games and the murky secrets of missing-person files while fixating on the wartime memoir of his once-lauded father. As pressures at work and home mount, he questions whether heroism and truth are anything more than constructed narratives, especially in the face of silence. His search becomes less about facts than about control, inheritance, and the cost of defining oneself against an uncertain past.
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- Published
- 1981
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-230
- Original Language
- English
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