It seemed at first to be mere portraiture, but it turned out to be a story very much in development and leading to actual plot. And the portraiture was lovely and not overdone. Slow, steady, episodic, fantastic characterization, deep POV shorthand at times, summarized scenes shaded by a paragraph's primary character's psychology, never ostentatious but always attentive language, no storytelling tricks other than fluid perspective shifting among characters, no insight zingers or attempts to render emotional or historical heft as HEFTY, light-handed dispersal of a sense of life throughout supplied to all characters including the semi-pathetic local Nazi honcho and the Hitler-supportive yet generally favorably presented Auntie.

He was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War. It helped me to get into the Austro-Germanic mindset but, more importantly, it was a beautifully written account of what ended up being a tragic series of events at the back end of World War II. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. And that is the point.

�kȠ�zE��� Auch im letzten Kriegswinter 1944/45 geht das Leben zunächst seinen gewohnten Lauf, vom Krieg und von Entbehrungen ist zunächst noch wenig zu spüren. - 28.2.1943. It helped me to get into the Austro-Germanic mindset but, more importantly, it was a beautifully written account of what ended up being a tragic series of events at the back end of World War II.

Doch allmählich rückt die Front näher und das Leben der von Globigs gerät aus den Fugen.
The Georgenhof however, becomes a pit-stop for fleeing refugees, including a stamp collecting pollical economist, a Nazi violinist, a painter, a baron, and a Jewish refugee. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 20. The writer's voice is strangely disjointed and interspersed with exclamations, commenting upon the various fates of the protagonists. It may take up to 1-5 minutes before you receive it. I happened upon this book in the airport en route to Salzburg and a new freelance job. This is a novel about the story of an aristocratic family in East Prussia in January 1945. I did however really like the front cover. Unable to add item to List.

I found it interesting to compare with Death in Danzig (Hahnemann) ,which is written from a Polish point of view.
Beautifully written, dramatically understated and very bleak, I happened upon this book in the airport en route to Salzburg and a new freelance job. 1.1. All for Nothing is a novel set in January 1945, when the Soviet Army invaded East Prussia, destroying everything in their path and raping every woman they could get their hands on. On a hill near villages so small they're not on a map sets the manor house of the von Globig family, the Georgenhof. This novel's scenes and the songs/folklore/movies invoked throughout were no doubt informed by the intensive research he did for his Echolot, or Sonar Soundings, only the last volume translated as Swanson 1945. There are not many writers who can write across ages, classes and countries, however Kempowski is one of them. I have read many novels set during WWII.

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Honderdduizenden mensen slaan op de vlucht. You can write a book review and share your experiences. The violinist even plays while rumbling sounds of fighting can be heard in the distance, recalling Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Don't expect it to be uplifting. Applause Applause. Read 304 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

Walter Kempowski was a German writer. The semi-aristocratic von Globig family live in a manor called the Georgenhof, near a town called Mitkau (apparently fictitious) on the road to Elbin.

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All For Nothing, recently released by The New York Review of Books, takes place in East Prussia in winter of 1945 when the German army is in retreat and the Red Army is rapidly encroaching. Das Echolot. This 2006 novel is the first I’ve read by Walter Kempowski, though it was the last he wrote before his death in 2007. ISBN: 978-3-328-10275-5.

It seemed at first to be mere portraiture, but it turned out to be a story very much in development and leading to actual plot.

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