Published by Vintage Classics, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£6.99
Author:
Fred Uhlman
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781860463655
£6.99
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EAN: 9781860463655
Published: 7 Sep 2006
Middle-class, Jewish Hans finds himself charmed by Konradin, the young aristocrat in his class and they quickly become best friends. But it is 1932 and the boys live in a rapidly changing Germany. The rise of Hitler compromises their friendship irrevocably but their story does not truly end until after the war.
Readers across the world have been devastated and moved by the shocking denouement of this beautiful and profound exploration of the nature of friendship and the impact of history on human relationships.
Complete with a new introduction by Rachel Seiffert, bestselling author of The Dark Room.
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Melancholy and elegiac with a very effective final twist of the plot
- The Times
Finely concise, tender and most painful
- Sunday Times
A minor masterpiece. Uhlman succeeds in lending his narrative a musical quality which is both haunting and lyrical
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An exquisite novella such as Fred Uhlman's Reunion...is clearly worth much more than its weight or cover price and certainly more than the latest prize-winning bit of puff
- Guardian
Fred Uhlman, born in Stuttgart in 1901, claimed that his South-West German homeland of Württemberg, made him a 'romantic' for life and formed the essence of his sensibilities as a poet. Understandable since it was also the home of Schiller, Hölderlin, Mörike, Weiland, Uhland, Schlegel, Hegel, Schelling and Herman Hesse. Uhlman's name is not out of place among these, and the beauty of that birthplace illuminates every line of his stunning fictional memoir Reunion. He died in 1985.
