Best of
German-Literature

1971

Shadows in Paradise


Erich Maria Remarque - 1971
    Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe's chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow migre, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories.Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy--and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. . . .

Malina


Ingeborg Bachmann - 1971
    Plunging toward its riveting finale, Malina brutally lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between women and men.