FLOTSAM

by Erich Maria Remarque ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 21, 1941

Remarque puts his pen to one of the great catastrophes of today, the modern version of the man without a country, the refugees denied passport and residence who can't go back and can't go on and can't remain. From Berlin to Vienna to Zurich to Paris, ""corpess on parole"", unwanted, jailed, evicted. As a popular success, this is less likely to carry than Remarque's past books. Its subject matter alone is a deterrent, the love story is less intense, the narrative momentum slower. It cannot however fail but move, this story of the hunted-of Steiner, the political exile, and the two innocents, Kern and Ruth, he takes in hand. On the road and at the borders, in the jails, the refugee stations, persecution and escape. And Remarque knows how to harrow -- and hold.

Pub Date: April 21, 1941

ISBN: 1931541736

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1941

Categories: FICTION