All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germanys most acclaimed and popular writers. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine.Īll for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors-a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. 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-year-old son, Peter. WALTER KEMPOWSKI (1929 - 2007) was one of Germanys most important post-war writers. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. The Russian Army is marching west relentlessly shoveling refugees ahead of it. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. It is always satisfying for a lover of history to happen upon a literature that recreates so believably a time and place as does All for Nothing, Walter Kempowski’s window into East Prussia in January, 1945. Author(s): Walter Kempowski Anthea Bell (Translator)Ī wealthy family tries-and fails-to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers.
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