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The longest night
- Title
- The longest night / Otto de Kat ; translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson.
- Author
- Kat, Otto de, 1946-
- Publication
- New York : MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-5942 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Watkinson, Laura
- Description
- 205 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Since the liberation of the Netherlands in May 1945, Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, on a street held together by the powerful bonds of friendship formed among neighbors during the Second World War. She has worked hard to block out the war years she spent in Nazi Berlin, when she was married to her first husband, Carl. Eventually, Emma married Bruno, her second husband, and they had two sons together. Now ninety-six years old and on the eve of her own death, Emma is besieged by long-forgotten memories that crowd into her consciousness despite their long banishment, along with flashbacks of happier years and of the terrible tragedy of the war. She reflects on her marriage to Carl, a "good" German who resisted the Third Reich and paid the ultimate price for it; her father, a Dutch diplomat who secretly worked to help refugees escape the Nazis and to supply the British intelligence service with critical information; and the many friends she has lost, during the war and since."--Jacket flap.
- Uniform Title
- Die längste nacht. English
- Alternative Title
- Die längste nacht.
- Subjects
- Reminiscing in old age
- World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- Germany > World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction
- Diplomats > Fiction
- 1900-1999
- Women
- Reminiscing in old age > Fiction
- Netherlands > Rotterdam
- Germany > Berlin
- World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction
- Berlin (Germany) > World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Berlin > Fiction
- Survival > Fiction
- World War (1939-1945)
- Women in war > Fiction
- Berlin (Germany) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
- Rotterdam (Netherlands) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Note
- Translation of: Die längste nacht.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-5942
- ISBN
- 9781681441993
- 1681441993
- 0857056085
- 9780857056085
- OCLC
- 984758622
- Author
- Kat, Otto de, 1946- author.
- Title
- The longest night / Otto de Kat ; translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson.
- Publisher
- New York : MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Watkinson, Laura, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-5942