No Man's Time |
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Author:
| Lawrie, Steven |
Original Author:
| Bernig, Jorg |
ISBN: | 978-1-4997-1785-3 |
Publication Date: | May 2014 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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'The president worked late into the small hours that night and perhaps he believed that he was recording his name in the annals of history. Bold strokes! That was the only way. Even if that meant driving three million people out of the country. The country's borders, indeed the borders of all countries, should correspond to the distribution of peoples, of languages and to different ways of living. This was a unique opportunity. Bold strokes! It had already started, and even before he...
More Description'The president worked late into the small hours that night and perhaps he believed that he was recording his name in the annals of history. Bold strokes! That was the only way. Even if that meant driving three million people out of the country. The country's borders, indeed the borders of all countries, should correspond to the distribution of peoples, of languages and to different ways of living. This was a unique opportunity. Bold strokes! It had already started, and even before he returned, the hunt was on in the streets of Prague: Hunt them out! Find them! Kill them!'Jörg Bernig's novel is set amidst the chaos and confusion of 'ethnic cleansing' in the aftermath of the Second World War. In a secluded no man's land between East and West a group of refugees of differing origins find temporary sanctuary from their persecutors and from their own pasts-but this peaceful 'no man's time' is threatened by the Revolutionary Guards who are still on their trail.'Lively and striking in style, [this book] is above all a convincing depiction of ordinary people under far from ordinary pressure.' (New Books in German)