First published in 1960, THE LOST EUROPEANS is British author Emanuel Litvinoff's story of an inverse pilgrimage: that of a Jewish man to a resurgent, post-war Berlin.
Although British writer Emanuel Litvinoff (1915-2011) is best known for his work JOURNEY THROUGH A SMALL PLANET, it might be said that he has also been pigeonholed by it, as an author confined by a small pocket of British life. But Litvinoff claimed European, rather than British nationality. His political activism after the Holocaust was both dedicated and successful.
One of the best unsung novelists of our time
*Valentine Cunningham*
The great forgotten novel of post-war Berlin... both moving and
forensic in its portrayal of a shabby and still only partly
repaired city: recently divided between East and West but united by
a common past of such monstrosity that the most prosaic presences
and encounters shriek of murder'
*Patrick Wright*
Litvinoff’s novel is as much about place as people, and he excels
with his portrait of post war, pre-Wall Berlin... We accompany them
through a city of victims and survivors, perpetrators and ghosts –
all the time wondering why so fine a book could languish so long in
obscurity. Now this overlooked gem can sparkle again'
*Herald*
A real treat... This is still some achievement and has been the
book I have enjoyed most to date in Apollo's surprisingly
wide-ranging series of eight of "the best books you've never
read"'
*Nudge Book*
Litvinoff is a wonderful chronicler of city life... he conjures up
post-war Berlin down to the very smells... Full of heart and
sensitivity... it is a compelling investigation into guilt and
complicity'
*TLS*
A heady evocation of a city in moral stasis... Litvinoff is
excellent on describing the dichotomy between Berlin's sullen
monochrome East and devil-may-care West, but it is with his
intriguing melee of heroes, vagabonds and miscreants that he brings
post-War Berlin dizzyingly to life'
*BookWitty*
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