Benjamin's Crossing

Jay Parini

earliest edition we have, 2021 Canongate Books, 2021

"It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains his precious manuscript of a thousand handwritten pages, he sets off for the border and is led by chance to a young anti-Nazi who is taking J...

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Benjamin's Crossing edition · 2021 · Canongate Books · 9781786892850
Benjamin's crossing edition · 2021 · Anchor Books · 408 pages · 9780525562757
Benjamin's Crossing edition · 2021 · Canongate Books · 9781786892867
Benjamin's Crossing edition · 2021 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 320 pages · 9780525562764

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