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Reunion (1971)

by Fred UHLMAN

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Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be discovered. On a grey afternoon in 1932, a Stuttgart classroom is stirred by the arrival of a newcomer. Middle-class Hans is intrigued by the aristocratic new boy, Konradin, and before long they become best friends. It's a friendship of the greatest kind, of shared interests and long conversations, of hikes in the German hills and growing up together. But the boys live in a changing Germany. Powerful, delicate and daring, Reunion is a story of the fragility, and strength, of the bonds between friends. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY RACHEL SEIFFERT… (more)
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This book is really a short story at only 71 pages but it will stay with me for a long time. It is the story of two schoolboys in Germany in the late 1930’s before WWII. One is Jewish the other Christian and it’s about the friendship they form and the effect that Hitter’s regime has on it. ( )
  LisaBergin | Apr 12, 2023 |
Este libro de menos de 100 páginas me voló la cabeza. ( )
  Pindarix | Jul 15, 2021 |
rivenduto? cattive condizioni, non è la copia storica di adolescente
  perseveranza | Feb 28, 2021 |
Beautiful and powerful novella, in which Jewish narrator, Hans Schwarz, recalls his adolescence in pre-WW2 Stuttgart. He takes us back to an unexceptional day at school when a new student is enrolled - the aristocratic Konradin von Hohenfels.
Schwarz re-lives his almost obsessive interest in this godlike youth, the way their friendship takes off. But as Nazism takes over, von Hohenfels has to keep his new friend well away from the family home. Indeed, it seems that the boy, too, has a level of sympathy for Hitler...
The end comes as a surprise. Very well written. ( )
  starbox | Jun 7, 2019 |
The ending of some books leaves you scratching your head. Not this, the ending is stark. You cannot get the meaning wrong. Likewise, the opening is beautiful too. I read it several times and it is just as poetic. ( )
  siok | Mar 28, 2017 |
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UHLMAN, Fredprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Castagnone, Maria GiuliaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Koestler, ArthurIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Warmenhoven, RobertTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be discovered. On a grey afternoon in 1932, a Stuttgart classroom is stirred by the arrival of a newcomer. Middle-class Hans is intrigued by the aristocratic new boy, Konradin, and before long they become best friends. It's a friendship of the greatest kind, of shared interests and long conversations, of hikes in the German hills and growing up together. But the boys live in a changing Germany. Powerful, delicate and daring, Reunion is a story of the fragility, and strength, of the bonds between friends. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY RACHEL SEIFFERT

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Nella Germania degli anni Trenta, due ragazzi sedicenni frequentano la stessa scuola esclusiva. L'uno è figlio di un medico ebreo, l'altro è di ricca famiglia aristocratica. Tra loro nasce un'amicizia del cuore, un'intesa perfetta e magica. Un anno dopo, il loro legame è spezzato. "L'amico ritrovato" è apparso nel 1971 negli Stati Uniti ed è poi stato pubblicato in Inghilterra, Francia, Olanda, Svezia, Norvegia, Danimarca, Spagna, Germania, Israele, Portogallo. Introduzione di Arthur Koestler.
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