A veteran maimed in another war describes how war can change people: As he's learning to carve wood, he cuts the image of a fox into his arm. Peter, whose mother died in a car accident years earlier, is terrified that he'll grow up rage-driven like his father he's tormented by the memory of how his actions contributed to a baby rabbit's death long ago. A fox describes in detail how she saw her parents clubbed to death after her mother was caught in a trap. The war-driven violence in Pax is most horrific because it repeatedly destroys lovable innocents when a deer wanders into a meadow and is blown up by a land mine, there's little description of gore, just a heartrending sense of betrayal and wrongness.
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