- Refugee, Nazi, fascism, World War II
A must read book about refugees and escape during the Nazi regime that has recently been adapted into the movie version also known as simply as “transit”.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Anna Seghers
- First published
- 1944
- Pages
- 290
- Publisher
- Hermann Luchterhand, Curt Weller, Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, German, Russian, French
- ISBN
- 9783746651538
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Anna Seghers, is the pseudonym of a German writer Annette (Netti) Reiling, notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian Communist, Seghers escaped Nazi-controlled territory through wartime France. She was granted a visa and gained ship's passage to Mexico, where she lived in Mexico City (1941–47).
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