Farewell To Europe
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark; minor nick/tear on front pastedown. Usual shelf-wear.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of mid-twentieth-century Europe, Farewell to Europe chronicles the journey of characters caught in the sweeping tides of war, displacement, and political upheaval that defined an era. Walter Laqueur, a renowned historian and scholar of European affairs, brings his formidable intellectual authority to this sequel to The Missing Years, constructing a narrative rich with historical texture and psychological depth. The novel follows its protagonists as they reckon with exile, identity, and the irreversible transformation of a continent they once called home — a Europe vanishing before their very eyes. Laqueur's prose carries the weight of lived history, informed by his own experiences as a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany, lending the fiction an authenticity that transcends the merely literary. Blending the sweep of historical epic with intimate personal drama, the novel argues that the true cost of Europe's catastrophe was measured not in borders redrawn, but in lives uprooted and pasts erased. For those drawn to the tradition of humanist European fiction — echoing the works of Stefan Zweig or Arthur Koestler — Farewell to Europe raises an haunting question: when a world disappears, what remains of the people it once shaped?
Author: Walter Laqueur
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark; minor nick/tear on front pastedown. Usual shelf-wear.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of mid-twentieth-century Europe, Farewell to Europe chronicles the journey of characters caught in the sweeping tides of war, displacement, and political upheaval that defined an era. Walter Laqueur, a renowned historian and scholar of European affairs, brings his formidable intellectual authority to this sequel to The Missing Years, constructing a narrative rich with historical texture and psychological depth. The novel follows its protagonists as they reckon with exile, identity, and the irreversible transformation of a continent they once called home — a Europe vanishing before their very eyes. Laqueur's prose carries the weight of lived history, informed by his own experiences as a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany, lending the fiction an authenticity that transcends the merely literary. Blending the sweep of historical epic with intimate personal drama, the novel argues that the true cost of Europe's catastrophe was measured not in borders redrawn, but in lives uprooted and pasts erased. For those drawn to the tradition of humanist European fiction — echoing the works of Stefan Zweig or Arthur Koestler — Farewell to Europe raises an haunting question: when a world disappears, what remains of the people it once shaped?