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Additional authors

1. Dembo, Margot Bettauer
2. Steinaecker, Thomas von, 1977-

Description

1. 402 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

1. A revelatory World War II novel about a German prisoner of war fleeing for the border and encountering a variety of Germans, good and bad and indifferent, along his way. Now available in a new English translation. The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful, popular, and influential novels of the twentieth century, a hair raising thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany and that is no less exciting today than when it was first published in 1942. Seven political prisoners escape from a Nazi prison camp; in response, the camp commandant has seven trees harshly pruned to resemble seven crosses: they will serve as posts to torture each recaptured prisoner, and capture, of course, is certain. Meanwhile, the escapees split up and flee across Germany, looking for such help and shelter as they can find along the way, determined to reach the border. Anna Seghers's novel is not only a supremely suspenseful story of flight and pursuit but also a detailed portrait of a nation in the grip and thrall of totalitarianism. Margot Bettauer Dembo's expert new translation makes the complete text of this great political novel available in English for the first time.

Series statement

1. New York Review Books classics

Uniform title

1. Siebte Kreuz. English
2. New York Review Books classics.

Alternative title

1. Siebte Kreuz.

Subject

1. Fascism
2. History
3. 1900-1999
4. World War (1939-1945)
5. Germany
6. Escaped prisoners of war > Germany
7. World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German > Fiction
8. World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Fiction
9. Fascism > Germany > History > 20th century > Fiction
10. Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Fiction.
2. History.

Call number

1. JFD 18-4311

Language (note)

1. Translated from the German.

Author

1. Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983.

Title

1. The seventh cross / Anna Seghers ; translated from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo ; afterword by Thomas von Steinaecker.

Publisher

1. New York : New York Review Books, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. New York Review Books classics
2. New York Review Books classics.

Language

1. Translated from the German.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Dembo, Margot Bettauer, translator.
2. Steinaecker, Thomas von, 1977- writer of foreword.

LCCN

1. 2018008720

Other standard identifier

1. 99977310234
2. 40028301386

ISBN

1. 9781681372129 paperback alkaline paper
2. 1681372126 paperback alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFD 18-4311