The right answer is " It shares the detail that the war lasted four years."
In the first paragraph of The Dark Game, the author makes a succinct, detailed account of the duration of the war, which was 4 years. He also reports in this paragraph how people did not expect the war to last so long and that they were surprised by the duration of the conflict, which brought so much pain and suffering to society.
I can give a minute-by-minute summary of the local Hawaiian news.
I believe we have here an example of situational irony.
Irony is found in the contrast between expected outcomes and what actually happens. The narrator wanted to spend the time on the beach, not in the hotel room watching local TV. However, the reality was such that now the narrator "can give a minute-by-minute summary of the local Hawaiian news".
That's why I think this particular sentence matches the style of the passage.
The compound subject is "Young Juan and his father." Both Jaun and his father are the subjects of the sentence, but because there are two of them it means there is a compound subject.
You would put them "Brunswick Times"
