All for Nothing

Walter Kempowski

Original title: All for nothing

earliest edition we have, 2015 Granta Books, 2015 352 pages

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"The last novel by one of Germany's most important postwar writers, All for Nothing was published in Germany in 2006, just before Walter Kempowski's death. It describes with matter-of-fact clarity and acuity, and a roving point of view, the atmosphere in East Prussia during the winter of 1944-1945 as the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army approaches. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is...

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All for nothing edition · 2018 · 343 pages · 9781681372051
All for Nothing edition · 2016 · Granta Books · 352 pages · 9781847087218
All for Nothing edition · 2015 · Granta Books · 9781847087225
All for Nothing edition · 2015 · Granta Books · 352 pages · 9781847087201

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