This arresting novel by one of Germany\'s foremost modern writers dramatizes the ideological conflict between East Europe and the West at the time of the Hungarian revolt.
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book..
Translated by Ursule Molinaro.
The story, which centers around Jakob Abs, an East German railroad dispatcher, illuminates the psychological and political reality of living in a partitioned Germany.
This arresting novel by one of Germany\'s foremost modern writers dramatizes the ideological conflict between East Europe and the West at the time of the Hungarian revolt