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Die Nacht des schwarzen Zaubers
German
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1975
About the author
Heinz G. Konsalik
584 books85 followersHeinz G. Konsalik (pseudonym of Heinz Günther) was a German novelist.
Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (The Mutilated Face), which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over a personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law.
Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted into a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.
Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (The Mutilated Face), which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over a personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law.
Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted into a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.
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June 19, 2021
It was not well written. There are four things that really bothered me while reading this book.
1. Why are some herbs able to cure a disease that advanced medicine can not
2. I understand that if your child has a certain amount of time to live that you want to make sure that that time is a happy one. But they are able (with thanks to the illness) to go to a f*cking exotic Island
3. If you knew that there is some illigal shit going on you call authorities and you do not blow those people apart
4. The treath to the main character's marriage sucks
1. Why are some herbs able to cure a disease that advanced medicine can not
2. I understand that if your child has a certain amount of time to live that you want to make sure that that time is a happy one. But they are able (with thanks to the illness) to go to a f*cking exotic Island
3. If you knew that there is some illigal shit going on you call authorities and you do not blow those people apart
4. The treath to the main character's marriage sucks
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