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The Seventh Cross - Anna Seghers
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epub | 8.8 MB | English| Isbn:9781681372136 | Author: Anna Seghers, Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator), Thomas von Steinaecker (Afterword) | Year: 1946

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Quote:A revelatory World War II novel about a German prisoner of war fleeing for the border and encountering a variety of Germans, good and bad and indifferent, along his way. Now available in a new English translation.

The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful, popular, and influential novels of the twentieth century, a hair raising thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany and that is no less exciting today than when it was first published in 1942. Seven political prisoners escape from a Nazi prison camp; in response, the camp commandant has seven trees harshly pruned to resemble seven crosses: they will serve as posts to torture each recaptured prisoner, and capture, of course, is certain. Meanwhile, the escapees split up and flee across Germany, looking for such help and shelter as they can find along the way, determined to reach the border. Anna Seghers's novel is not only a supremely suspenseful story of flight and pursuit but also a detailed portrait of a nation in the grip and thrall of totalitarianism.

Margot Bettauer Dembo's expert new translation makes the complete text of this great political novel available in English for the first time.
Category:Fiction, Literature, World Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Peoples & Cultures - Fiction, Literary Fiction, German Fiction, Character Types - Fiction, European Peoples & Cultures - Fiction & Literature, Settings & Atmosphere - Fiction, Politics & Social Issues - Fiction, 20th Century German Fiction - 1901-1945, Fascism & Aftermath - German Fiction, Fugitives - Fiction, Germans - Fiction, Totalitarian States & Occupied Countries - Fiction

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