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First published in 1958, and now re-released in this handsome new edition, ''The Lost Europeans'' is described as British author Emanuel Litvinoff's great forgotten novel of post-war Berlin. ''Moving and forensic in its portrayal of a still only partly repaired city: recently divided between East and West, but united by a common past of such monstrosity.'' - Patrick Wright
This is the story of an inverse pilgrimage: that of two Jewish men returning to a post-war Berlin that is beginning to recover from the horrific effects of the war, attempting to redeem themselves.
Martin Stone (formerly Silberstein) now lives in London after being forced to flee with his family, and has returned to win some kind of financial restitution for his depressed father, but has concealed his destination from him.
Hugo Krantz, formerly a bright young talent in the theatre, but who has never recovered from the humiliation he received at the hands of the Gestapo, has come back to confront his ex-lover Putzi Von Schlesinger, who had betrayed him.
But coming back is worse, much worse than either man could have possibly anticipated.
Litvinoff portrays a tense, ruined yet flourishing Berlin where nothing is quite what it seems in this sharp, sardonic and hard-hitting novel.
This Apollo Classics edition features an introduction by Michael Schmidt.
Paperback, 295 Pages, Orig. Publ. 1958, This Edition Publ. April 2016
Author: Emanuel Litvinoff