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02644aam a2200433 i 4500 001 B94EFDAC370411E887D7D95B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180403010230 008 171003s2018 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017046080 020 $a 1681372053 020 $a 9781681372051 040 $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a PT2671.E43 $b A7713 2018 082 00 $a 833/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Kempowski, Walter, $e author. 245 10 $a All for nothing / $c Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell ; introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York Review Books, $c [2018] 300 $a xiv, 343 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a New York Review Books Classics. 520 $a "The last novel by one of Germany's most important postwar writers, All for Nothing was published in Germany in 2006, just before Walter Kempowski's death. It describes with matter-of-fact clarity and acuity, and a roving point of view, the atmosphere in East Prussia during the winter of 1944-1945 as the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army approaches. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into a state of disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-yearold son, Peter. As the road beside the house fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof receives strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee--but life continues in the main as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the main characters, until their caution, their hedged bets and provisions, their wondering, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Germany $x Social conditions $y 1933-1945 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Germany $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $z Germany $v Fiction. 650 0 $a War stories. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a War stories. $2 gsafd. 700 1 $a Bell, Anthea, $e translator. 700 1 $a Erpenbeck, Jenny, $d 1967- $e author of introduction. 730 0 $a Alles umsonst. $l English. 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021011047.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115650.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20180403014100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B94EFDAC370411E887D7D95B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search