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All for Nothing

All for Nothing Paperback - 2018

by Walter Kempowski

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New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, 2018. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title All for Nothing
  • Author Walter Kempowski
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
  • Date 2018
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1681372053I5N00
  • ISBN 9781681372051 / 1681372053
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017046080
  • Dewey Decimal Code 833.914

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/2017, Page 103
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2018, Page 66
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/18/2017, Page 0

About the author

Walter Kempowski (1929-2007) was born in Hamburg. During World War II, he was made to serve in a penalty unit of the Hitler Youth due to his association with the rebellious Swingjugend movement of jazz lovers, and he did not finish high school. After the war he settled in West Germany. On a 1948 visit to Rostock, his hometown, in East Germany, Walter, his brother Robert and their mother were arrested for espionage; a Soviet military tribunal sentenced him to twenty-five years in prison, of which he served eight at the notorious "Yellow Misery" prison in Bautzen. In 1957 he graduated high school. His first success as an author was the autobiographical novel Tadellser & Wolff (1971), part of his acclaimed German Chronicle series of novels. In the 1980s he began work on an immense project, Echo Soundings, gathering firsthand accounts, diaries, letters, and memoirs of World War II, which he collated and curated into ten volumes published over twenty years, and which is considered a modern classic.

Anthea Bell is the recipient of the 2009 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translation of Stefan Zweig's Burning Secret. In 2002 she won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. Her translations of Zweig's novellas Confusion and Journey into the Pastare available as NYRB Classics.

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She is the author of several works of fiction, including The End of Days, which won the Hans Fallada Prize and the International Foreign Fiction Prize, and most recently, Go, Went, Gone. Erpenbeck lives in Berlin.