Walter Kempowski

• 1981
• / General Fiction
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First American edition. Ex-library with clear wraps, spine label and card pocket. Spine slightly cocked, brown stain on rfep; otherwise very good and clean. Dust jacket fine. 399 pages. Novel-memoir of Germany in the 20th century....

• Feb-2018
• / Psychological Suspense
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A wealthy family tries -- and fails -- to seal themselves off from the aftermath of World War II in this historical fiction “masterpiece” by one of Germany’s most important post-war writers (The New Yorker).In East Prussia, January 1945, the Ge...

• Nov-2019
• / General Fiction
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It is 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down. Jonathan Fabrizius, a journalist living in West Germany, is asked to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia - where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications - to w...

• Mar-2020
• / Historical
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A moving, darkly funny road trip novel about World War II, returning to one's birthplace, and coming to terms with tragedy.West Germany, 1988, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall: Jonathan Fabrizius, a middle-aged erstwhile journalist, has a comf...

• Nov-2023
• / Historical
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A provocative novel about growing up in Nazi Germany, as seen through the eyes of a child witnessing the spread of intolerance and political unrest in his town. An Ordinary Youth is a novel drawn directly from the author's boyhood in Nazi Germany. ...