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Shadows in Paradise: A Novel
After years of hiding and surviving near-death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe's chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow migre, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories.
Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still...more
Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still...more
Paperback, 316 pages
Published
June 9th 1998
by Random House Trade Paperbacks
(first published 1971)
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I love Remarque's books, even the ones that have somewhat predictable endings or story lines. His writing style and description/development of characters are my biggest attracions. He provides small, particular details about characters and their lives that make you feel that you know these people, that you live during their times, feel their feelings.... A lot of his stories are about WWI or WWII and times in between. In my opinion, they are much better, more informative and definitely much more...more
NYC in the 40s! ...a very good book stumbled upon randomly while browsing the german language section in the library (will that be possible with ebooks? real browsing that is, not crowd-sourced gutless "pushed" content. but i digress...) SHADOWS IN PARADISE is the final (posthumously published) novel by the author of the anti-war blockbuster ALL IS QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. a tumultuous bio, remarque survived two world wars, his lovers included Marlene Dietrich and Paulette Goddard, he was an...more
Apr 03, 2013
Sabine
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I love Remarque. Love, love, love. The way he writes, the way he thinks and his imagination works, the way he sees everything that happens around him. Everything. And this book was just great reminder for myself how magnificent writer he is.
Sure it was hard to start reading it. As always with his books. But it's different than it's with other books. When you read Remarque, you get mad that it goes so slow, but you feel everything. You actually live in the book till the last moment.
Of course, now...more
Sure it was hard to start reading it. As always with his books. But it's different than it's with other books. When you read Remarque, you get mad that it goes so slow, but you feel everything. You actually live in the book till the last moment.
Of course, now...more
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Kaip ir būdinga Remarkui, ši knyga labai malonaus stiliaus. Visi veiksmai, visi dialogai, visi aprašymai sukuria pojūtį, kad tai labai natūralūs ir tikri įvykiai bei veikėjai. Veiksmo nedaug, visas dėmesys sutelktas į pagrindinio veikėjo jausmus. Jis pabėga nuo gestapo ir atsiduria Amerikoje, kuri iš pirmo žvilgsnio panaši į rojų, palyginus su tuo ką jam teko patirti Europoje. Tačiau net ir čia jis negali įveikti savo demonų, savo praeities potyrių, kurie persekioja ir neleidžia nurimti. Nors pa...more
I found it simple and wonderful. A simple story about life of an ordinary person who survived in war. Taking deeper, a story about the long-term influence of II world war on people's lives: they can not live as usual, they are doomed to be lost and even in the paradise they are merely shadows. Love, friendship - everything is different under haze of the past.
I love all of Remarque's books but I somehow I didn't enjoy this one. Maybe it was because I read it while I was on a summer holiday with three of my best friends...a chick-flic probably would have been more apropriate as this is quite depressing set after WWII (if I remember correctly) in New York. I will have to read it again.
Reading any Remarque's book keeps you awaken. All the time you can't stop thinking: how this man could have found out all your pessimistic thoughts and put into his works? His works are amazing not only because of plot and specific characters but because of that strange atmosphere which his novels are filled with...
Sep 09, 2009
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Story of a German immigrant forced out of his country. New York is far from the war operations, but the war is not far enough to let people, touched by it, live in peace. Set in New York in 1940th.
Quotes I've liked:
"Ланский катехизис", параграф десятый, -- провозгласил он. -- Есть
можно все, в любом сочетании и в любое время! Значит, и венский шницель с
шоколадным тортом.
"Ланский катехизис", параграф
второй: "Никогда не делай несколько дел одновременно, нельзя забивать себе
мозги, когда за тобой охотится гестапо".
Я знавал в Германии одного врача, так его вообще звали Адольф
Дойчланд, -- сказал я. -- И конечно же, он был евреем.
"Ланский катехизис", параграф десятый, -- провозгласил он. -- Есть
можно все, в любом сочетании и в любое время! Значит, и венский шницель с
шоколадным тортом.
"Ланский катехизис", параграф
второй: "Никогда не делай несколько дел одновременно, нельзя забивать себе
мозги, когда за тобой охотится гестапо".
Я знавал в Германии одного врача, так его вообще звали Адольф
Дойчланд, -- сказал я. -- И конечно же, он был евреем.
Умело описание на тъгата, тъгата на всеки човек, съзнаващ, че всичко е преходно а той е единственото същество, което го знае....
Разтърси ме. Човешките чувства са описани толкова реално, че на места се стрясках. Накара ме да се замисля над въпроса с емигрантството, какво точно е то и каква е моята гледна точка по въпроса. Изключително реален роман. Роман за същността на човек, нравите му, първосигналните емоции, но и оталожилите се такива.
Разтърси ме. Човешките чувства са описани толкова реално, че на места се стрясках. Накара ме да се замисля над въпроса с емигрантството, какво точно е то и каква е моята гледна точка по въпроса. Изключително реален роман. Роман за същността на човек, нравите му, първосигналните емоции, но и оталожилите се такива.
Лично мне было не очень интересно читать это произведение! Дойдя до конца расстроилась... Из-за незаконченности, вроде и смысла нет читать... Хотя было бы интересно узнать чем бы оно закончилось если бы Ремарк ее дописал....
Jul 23, 2011
Dina
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very similar to the shadows in paradise, and has no ending... weird
Re-read this year. Still as powerful...
perfect book... one of my favourite...
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Erich Maria Remarque is one of the best known and most widely read authors of German literature in the twentieth century.
Remarque's biography is essentially marked and his writing fundamentally influenced by German history of the twentieth century: Childhood and youth in imperial Osnabrück, World War I, the Weimar Republic, and most of all his exile in Switzerland and the United States. With the...more
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Remarque's biography is essentially marked and his writing fundamentally influenced by German history of the twentieth century: Childhood and youth in imperial Osnabrück, World War I, the Weimar Republic, and most of all his exile in Switzerland and the United States. With the...more
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