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Loading... Reunion (1971)by Fred UHLMAN
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. ( ) 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. no reviews | add a review
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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 No library descriptions found.
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