The Promised Land - Couverture rigide

Remarque, Erich Maria

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0099577089 ISBN 13 : 9780099577089

Editeur : Vintage Classics, 2015

Synopsis

The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during World War II.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Erich Maria Remarque was born in 1899. He fought and was injured in the trenches in the First World War when he was eighteen years old. He was exiled and his works were burnt by the Nazis. He lived in America and Switzerland and married and divorced his first wife twice before marrying the celebrated Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard. He published several novels after All Quiet on the Western Front, the most famous of which is The Road Back. He died in 1970.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

By the author of All Quiet on the Western Front

Praise for Erich Maria Remarque:

'Remarque is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank' New York Review of Books

'A great writer ... He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will' New York Times

'Remarkable, humane, poignant' The Telegraph

'Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force' The Times

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

I walked through a shining rain of noise, words, traffic, laughter, shouts and the arousing din of a life that had nothing to do with me, but that battered my senses like a storm.

New York City, 1944. From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of Manhattan, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years of wandering a perilous, suffering Europe.
Unexpectedly released into the city’s chaotic midst, Somner finds himself adrift in this promised land, living the precarious life of a refugee amongst a community held together by an unspeakable past. Slowly building a life for himself, each new luxury – ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new suit, a new romance, and ultimately the possibility of a new life – has a bittersweet edge. Memories of war and inhumanity continue to resurface, even in a city seemingly bursting with opportunity.
A haunting snapshot of a unique time, place and predicament, this is a wonderful evocation of a city, a gripping exploration of an individual haunted by the past, and another powerful comment from Remarque on the devastating effects of war.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage Classics
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099577089
• ISBN 13: 9780099577089
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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