The Promised Land

The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during World War II. 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 unspeakable past. For Somner, each new luxury - ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new suit, a new romance - has a bittersweet edge. Memories of war and inhumanity continue to resurface even in this peaceful promised land.

Product details

• Authors: Erich Maria Remarque
• Assisted by: Michael Hofmann (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780099577096
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957709-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary