Alles Umsonst
January 1945, and a Prussian estate fills with refugees while everyone keeps behaving as though the world still works. Published in English as All for Nothing.
East Prussia, January 1945: a Junker estate fills with refugees as the Red Army approaches, and its inhabitants keep behaving as though the world still works. Published in English as All for Nothing, and considered by some the finest German novel since Sebald.
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Tyler Cowen
From 2006, could this be the best German-language novel since Sebald? It is about the pending doom from the Russian army approaching on East Prussia in 1945, and how the different characters deal with that, set on a German estate. Applicable to many other real world situations as well.
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