The Promised Land EPUB
by Erich Maria Remarque
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The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during World War II. From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years of wandering through a perlious, suffering Europe.
Remarque's final novel, left unfinished at his death, tells of the precarious life of the refugee – life lived in hotel lobbies, on false passports, the strange, ill-assorted refugee community held together by an unspeakable past.
For Somner, each new luxury - ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new suit, a new romance - has a bittersweet edge.
Memories of war and inhumanity continue to resurface even in this peaceful promised land.
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- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:12/02/2015
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- ISBN:9781448138265
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:12/02/2015
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- ISBN:9781448138265