| Description |
542 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
One night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An SS officer is shot dead by a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain. In retaliation, his commander orders the execution of thirty-seven Poles--one for every year of the dead man's life. First hidden by a sympathetic German couple, Margarita must then flee the brutal advance of the Soviet army with her newborn baby. So begins a thrilling panorama of intermingled destinies and events that reverberate from that single act of defiance. Kingdom of Twilight follows the lives of Jewish refugees and a German family resettled from Bukovina, as well as a former SS officer, chronicling the geographical and psychological dislocation generated by war. A quest for identity and truth takes them from refugee camps to Lübeck, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and New York, as they try to make sense of a changed world, and of their place in it. Hypnotically lyrical and intensely moving, Steven Uhly's epic novel is a finely nuanced yet shattering exploration of universal themes: love, hatred, doubt, survival, guilt, humanity, and redemption. |
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Refugee camps -- Fiction.
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National socialism -- Fiction.
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National socialism. (OCoLC)fst01033761
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Refugee camps. (OCoLC)fst01092775
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Refugee camps -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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War fiction. (OCoLC)fst01922585
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War fiction.
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Bulloch, Jamie, translator.
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| Added Title |
Königreich der Dämmerung. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Uhly, Steven, 1964- Kingdom of twilight New York : MacLehose Press, 2018 9781635060676 (DLC) 2017049746 |
| ISBN |
9781635060652 (hardcover) |
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1635060656 |
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9781635060669 (pbk.) |
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1635060664 |
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