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Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.

An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann.

Walter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit of the Waffen-SS, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, only to be captured and sentenced to death, the friends are reunited under catastrophic circumstances.

In a few days the war will be over, millions of innocents will be dead, and the survivors must find a way to live with its legacy.

'To Die in Spring holds its own against Günter Grass and Erich Maria Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership' - Guardian

Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.

An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann.

Walter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit of the Waffen-SS, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, only to be captured and sentenced to death, the friends are reunited under catastrophic circumstances.

In a few days the war will be over, millions of innocents will be dead, and the survivors must find a way to live with its legacy.

'To Die in Spring holds its own against Günter Grass and Erich Maria Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership' - Guardian

Über den Autor
Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. To Die in Spring is his eighth novel, but the first to be published in the UK.
Zusammenfassung

The German bestseller, a beautifully told and heart-breaking story of a friendship tragically interrupted by war.

'A sublime novel of damaged lives - and of fathers and sons.' Der Spiegel

Details
Empfohlen (bis): 99
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781509812868
ISBN-10: 1509812865
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rothmann, Ralf
Übersetzung: Whiteside, Shaun
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 128 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Ralf Rothmann
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2018
Gewicht: 0,202 kg
Artikel-ID: 111028725