Everything you need to understand or teach Tyres by Adam Thorpe.
In Adam Thorpe's short story "Tyres," the unnamed first person narrator falls in love with a local girl named Cécile during WWII. As the global conflict intensifies, the narrator becomes increasingly infatuated with Cécile, allowing their romance to distract him from the German invasion and his work at his father's tire shop in their remote French village. However, years after the war, the narrator cannot stop thinking about how the conflict impacted his life. Written in the past and present tenses, the short story explores themes of violence, loss, and longing.
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