Road Back - Softcover

Remarque, Erich Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931541744 ISBN 13: 9781931541749

Publisher: Simon Publications, 2001

Synopsis

After surviving several horrifying years in the inferno of the Western Front, a young German soldier and his cohorts return home at the end of WW1. Their road back to life in civilian world is made arduous by their bitterness about what they find in post-war society. A captivating story, one of Remarque's best.

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From the Inside Flap:

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After four grueling years the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed as eager young men seems colder, their homes smaller, the reasons their comrades had to die even more inexplicable.

For Ernst and his friends, the road back to peace is more treacherous than they ever imagined. Suffering food shortages, political unrest, and a broken heart,  Ernst undergoes a crisis that teaches him what there is to live for--and what he has that no one can ever take away.

From the Back Cover:

"A great writer . . . He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend his language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."
--The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon Publications
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1931541744
• ISBN 13: 9781931541749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352