To Die in Spring Hardcover – 13 Jul 2017

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Review ------ To Die in Spring holds its own against Günter Grass and Erich Maria Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership. (Rachel Seiffert Guardian) A Bosch-like vision of hell... The horror of war and the deep damage it does to people... is not always handled as well, or as powerfully, as this. (Sunday Times) A wonderful, precise, very moving novel. (Roddy Doyle) A remarkable and memorable book, about the nastiness, fear, dirt and brutality of war . . . Few novels, in any language, have conveyed them better. (Caroline Moorehead Times Literary Supplement) Yes, you’ve already read Remarque, but you should read this one because it’s not just the story of wartime trauma, but also the story of how that trauma affects the future. Walter Urban and his friend Friedrich Caroli are just 17 years old when they’re drafted from their dairy-farm duties into the trenches. Today, right now, we all need to read the chilling section in which very young men are hectored into service. (LitHub) Rothmann's work [is] one of the most substantial of contemporary German literature. (Tagesspiegel) In this masterpiece, Ralf Rothmann manages the seemingly impossible. He describes the guilt of their hers' generation from the viewpoint of the post-War generation without betraying it to a moralising know-it-all attitude. (Badische Zeitung) In contemporary German literature, there is nothing that can be compared to this book. (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Searing, haunting, incandescent: Rothmann’s new novel is a vital addition to the trove of wartime fiction. (Kirkus (starred review)) A sublime novel of damaged lives - and of hers and sons. (Der Spiegel) Book Description ---------------- The German bestseller, a beautifully told and heart-breaking story of a friendship tragically interrupted by war. 'A sublime novel of damaged lives - and of hers and sons.' Der Spiegel