Sentence examples for novel confronts from inspiring English sources

This novel confronts the long aftermath of the Vietnam War.

How best to do that is the problem this challenging novel confronts.

This haunting novel confronts the Turkish deportation of Armenians in World War I.

In one of Rudian's plays, characters aren't permitted to say "good morning," only "glory to labor". At a time when parts of the world are indulging nostalgia for communism, Kadare's novel confronts the infuriating impossibility of art in an autocratic, anti-individualist system.

A love story set in the midst of a refugee crisis, or the story of refugees who fall in love, Hamid's timely and spare new novel confronts the inevitability of mass global immigration, the unbroken cycle of violence and the indomitable human will to connect and love.

In his Chester B. Himes (1909 1984), Lawrence P. Jackson depicts the improbable life of the controversial writer whose novels confront sexuality, racism, and social injustice.

To literary theorist Michael LeMahieu, Barth's first two novels confront a logical positivist "separation of facts and values" common in postwar American fiction.

Campbell often employs figures reminiscent characters from 1930s novels confronted by the disorder and confusion of the real world, as in his Young Men in Search of Simplicity (1989).

At the end of the novel, he confronts Harris, and a struggle that seemed to be between labour and capital turns out, in fact, to be between worker and dreamer; false opposites, who are incapable of destroying each other after all.

This slim novel about confronting mortality, packed with sex, blackmail and mystery, was adapted for the stage.

Hanya Yanagihara's debut, The People in the Trees, was a brilliant, devastating if chilly novel, that confronted the worst excesses of male hubris through restraint and excision.