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All for nothing / Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell.
- Title
- All for nothing / Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell.
- Author
- Kempowski, Walter
- Publication
- London : Granta Books, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT2671.E43 A7715 2015 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bell, Anthea
- Description
- 343 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the world. Peter von Globig is twelve, and feigns a cough to get out of his Hitler Youth duties, preferring to sledge behind the house and look at snowflakes through his microscope. His father Eberhard is stationed in Italy - a desk job safe from the front - and his bookish and musical mother Katharina has withdrawn into herself. Instead the house is run by a conservative, frugal aunt, helped by two Ukrainian maids and an energetic Pole. Protected by their privileged lifestyle from the deprivation and chaos around them, and caught in the grip of indecision, they make no preparations to leave, until Katharina's decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing.
- Uniform Title
- Alles umsonst. English
- Alternative Title
- Alles umsonst.
- Subject
- 1933-1945
- Geschichte 1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Fiction
- Social conditions
- Gut Landwirtschaft
- Vertreibung
- Deutsche
- Tweede Wereldoorlog
- German fiction > Translations into English
- Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945 > Fiction
- Allemagne > Conditions sociales > 1933-1945 > Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Germany
- Ostpreußen
- Duitsland
- Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945 > Fiction
- (fast)World War (1939-1945)
- (fast)1933 - 1945
- (fast)Social conditions
- (gtt)Tweede Wereldoorlog
- (fast)Germany
- (gtt)Duitsland
- (gtt)Vertalingen (vorm)
- (gtt)Romans (teksten)
- (fast)Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- Erzählende Literatur.
- Fiktionale Darstellung.
- Vertalingen (vorm)
- Romans (teksten)
- German fiction
- Note
- Translated from the German.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781847087201
- 1847087205
- 9781847087218
- 1847087213
- 9781847087225 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015463351
- OCLC
- 920851780
- SCSB-12211935
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library