Erde und Feuer

by Horst Bienek

Oberschlesien im Jahr 1945: Der Krieg hat mit der großen Offensive an der Weichsel auch das Städtchen Gleiwitz erreicht. Die einen begeben sich auf die lange, mühselige Flucht, die anderen erwarten zu Hause das Ende der Welt. Bieneks Fähigkeit, die Menschen, ihre Schicksale und damit das Schicksal der Landschaft zu vergegenwärtigen, findet in diesem Buch ihren Höhepunkt. (Gleiwitz Suite, volume 4.)

325 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Horst Bieneck is best known for his “Gleiwitz cycle” of four novels about his native Silesia (Poland) “The First Polka” (1975), “September Light” (1977), “Time Without Bells” (1979) and “Earth and Fire” (1982). As a young man he was imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp until 1955, and his first novel “The Cell” (1968) describes his experiences there as a political prisoner. Later he worked in the media in West Germany while writing novels. He was the winner of the Nellie Sachs Prize, the Bremen Literature Prize and the William Raabe Prize.

Reviews

[Ivar Verner Elias Holmberg · Rating 4 out of 5]

…och i så tystnar till slut allt liv, i desperationens smältdegel.