Details

Subject(s)

• World War, 1939-1945—Germany—Fiction [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Prisoners and prisons, German—Fiction [Browse]
• Escaped prisoners of war—Germany [Browse]
• Fascism—Germany—History—20th century—Fiction [Browse]

Translator

Dembo, Margot Bettauer [Browse]

Writer of afterword

Steinaecker, Thomas von, 1977- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Series

New York Review Books classics [More in this series]

Summary note

"A revelatory World War II novel about a German prisoner of war fleeing for the border and encountering a variety of Germans, good and bad and indifferent, along his way. Now available in a new English translation. The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful, popular, and influential novels of the twentieth century, a hair raising thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany and that is no less exciting today than when it was first published in 1942. Seven political prisoners escape from a Nazi prison camp; in response, the camp commandant has seven trees harshly pruned to resemble seven crosses: they will serve as posts to torture each recaptured prisoner, and capture, of course, is certain. Meanwhile, the escapees split up and flee across Germany, looking for such help and shelter as they can find along the way, determined to reach the border. Anna Seghers's novel is not only a supremely suspenseful story of flight and pursuit but also a detailed portrait of a nation in the grip and thrall of totalitarianism. Margot Bettauer Dembo's expert new translation makes the complete text of this great political novel available in English for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

"Originally published in German as Das siebte Kreuz: Ein Roman aus Hitler-Deutschland, ©1946."--Title page verso.

Language note

Translated from the German.

Other title(s)

7th cross

ISBN

• 9781681372129 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
• 1681372126 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2018008720

OCLC

1002293521

Statement on responsible collection description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...