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3823997All for Nothinghttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/all-for-nothing-9781681372068/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3503652/cd389508-cdc3-4248-ae27-b57fa361bf2f.jpg?v=638385466798330000268348MXNNew York Review BooksInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A wealthy family triesand failsto seal themselves off from the aftermath of World War II in this historical fiction masterpiece by one of Germanys most important post-war writers (<em>The New Yorker</em>).</strong></p><p>In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig familys manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. 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. 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. 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 havent allowed themselves to imagine.</p><p><em>All for Nothing</em>, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germanys most acclaimed and popular writers.</p>...3760194All for Nothing268348https://www.gandhi.com.mx/all-for-nothing-9781681372068/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3503652/cd389508-cdc3-4248-ae27-b57fa361bf2f.jpg?v=638385466798330000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20189781681372068_W3siaWQiOiIwMTgyY2I5ZC1kZDhiLTRjNjItODY2Zi01ODUzMTE3NGJmMDQiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMzOSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjc4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjI2MSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDRUMDU6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781681372068_<p><strong>A 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 Germanys most important post-war writers.</strong></p><p>In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig familys manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. 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. 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. 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 havent allowed themselves to imagine.</p><p><em>All for Nothing</em>, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germanys most acclaimed and popular writers.</p>...9781681372068_New York Review Bookslibro_electonico_9381fcf9-45d7-3fe8-903d-bacb2db5715d_9781681372068;9781681372068_9781681372068Walter KempowskiInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/randomhousewh-epub-b5af3843-f679-4247-a0cb-57a20dbf5a46.epub2018-02-13T00:00:00+00:00New York Review Books