Book "The Adventures of Wesley Jackson" by William Saroyan

Anchored on Saroyan's personal experience as a participant in World War II, this novel, undeniably one of his best works (1946), published in a revised translation, depicts the odyssey of the young private Wesley Jackson, presenting the entire absurdity of war in a tragicomic spirit. The key to the book, imprinted with the inimitable colors of Saroyan's world, may be the following words once uttered by the great writer: "There is life in death, peace in war, something right in mistakes."