A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Erich Maria Remarque
A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Erich Maria Remarque
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Author: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 12 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/17/2019

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

From the quintessential author of wartime Germany, A Time to Love and a Time to Die echoes the harrowing insights of his masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front. After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a close, Graeber reaches out to Elisabeth, a childhood friend. Like him, she is imprisoned in a world she did not create. But in a time of war, love seems a world away. And sometimes, temporary comfort can lead to something unexpected and redeeming.

About Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) was born in Osnabrück, Germany, of French ancestry. He studied at the University of Münster but had to enlist in the German army at the age of eighteen. He fought on the Western Front and was wounded several times. He began his writing career as a journalist. Fame came with his first novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), which sold more than a million copies in its first year and created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. He left Germany in 1932 because of Nazism, came to the United States in 1939, and became a US citizen in 1947. All Quiet on the Western Front was adapted to film in 1930.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi

“Death smelled different in Russia than in Africa. In Africa, under heavy English fire, the corpses between the lines had often lain unburied for a long time, too; but the sun had worked fast… It was a dry death, in sand, sun, and wind. In Russia it was a greasy, stinking death.” I suspected going in......more

Goodreads review by Sepehr

عشق در حوالی مرگ : شاید اگر اینگونه در رخوت و افسردگی هستیم، بخاطر این است که در همه‌چیز میان‌مایه هستیم. نه این نه آن. نه بالا نه پایین. نه از چیزی دفاع می‌کنیم نه برای چیزی میجنگیم. شاید بخاطر همین است که زندگی بیشتر در دو حالت رخ می‌دهد. نمود پیدا می‌کند. زمانی که همه‌چیز دارید و زمانی که هیچ‌چیز......more