The Promised Land by Erich Maria Remarque, Michael Hofmann (Translation)

The Promised Land by Erich Maria Remarque, Michael Hofmann (Translation)From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years of wandering through a perlious, suffering Europe. Remarque's final novel, left unfinished at his death, tells of the precarious life of the refugee life lived in hotel lobbies, on false passports, the strange, ill assorted refugee community held together by an

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