Books
by Walter Kempowski
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All for Nothing |
East Prussia, January 1945. An aristocratic household waits out a bitter winter under the twin shadows of a Nazi regime and impending Russian invasion. A gripped society disintegrates slowly then all at once and the people we follow suffer varying fates. This German novel is vivid, compassionate and even-handed. We come to know and understand individual lives and why people behave as they do, as well as the world they live in. Deserves to be better known.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 80 Spring 2016) |
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