The Turncoat [electronic resource] : A Novel
Siegfried Lenz2020
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"""Never has the aftermath for Germans been better depicted than in Siegfried
Lenz's elegiac, The Turncoat. A newly discovered masterpiece."" -Alex
Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Avenue of Spies
Previously unpublished, this German postwar classic is one of the best books of
this major writer, who died in 2014.
The last summer before the end of World War II, Walter Proska is posted to a
small unit tasked with ensuring the safety of a railway line deep in the forest
on the border with Ukraine and Byelorussia. In this swampy region, a handful of
men-stunned by the heat, attacked by mosquitoes, and abandoned by their own
troops in the face of the resistance-must also submit to the increasingly absurd
and inhuman orders of their superior. Time passes, and the soldiers isolate
themselves, haunted by madness and the desire for death. An encounter with a
young Polish partisan, Wanda, makes Proska further doubt the validity of his
oath of allegiance, and he seek...
Main title:
The Turncoat [electronic resource] : A Novel / Siegfried Lenz
Author:
Siegfried Lenz, Author
Imprint:
United States : Other Press, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) ("304.0;5866.0")
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781590510544
Language:
English
BRN:
438246
Electronic access:
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |