His first novel was a tragic account of German soldiers in the first world war that has become an anti-war classic. Now, 85 years after All Quiet on the Western Front was published, Erich Maria Remarque’s last novel – his final, damning word on the effects of war – is to be published in English for the first time in its original version.
The Promised Land was unfinished at Remarque’s death in 1970. Reconstructed from his notes, it tells the story of a German refugee in New York during the second world war – a life lived in hotel lobbies, on false passports and among a community of refugees “known only to misery” – brought together by their unspeakable past of “jackbooted barbarians and their inhuman laws of slaves … and others to be destroyed in crematoria”.
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