A Night in Distant Motion

by Irina Korschunow

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When seventeen-year-old Regine, a Nazi supporter, falls in love with a Polish prisoner in 1944, she notices for the first time the injustices and horrors going on around her and discovers she can no longer be silent.

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Arias, Valentín (Translator)
Delden, Els van (Translator)

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Canonical title
A Night in Distant Motion
Original title
Er hieß Jan
Original publication date
1979; 1984 (Nederlandse vertaling) (Nederlandse vertaling)
People/Characters*
Regine Martens; Jan; Gertrud Hapke-Henning; Walter Henning; Maurice
Important places*
Steinbergen, Nedersaksen, Duitsland
Original language*
Duits
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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Teen, Children's Books, Tween
DDC/MDS
830Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesGerman literature and literatures of related languages
LCC
PT2671 .O6Language and LiteratureGerman, Dutch and Scandinavian literaturesGerman literatureIndividual authors or works1961-2000

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