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SHADOWS IN PARADIS / THE PROMISED LAND

Erich Maria Remarque

A Novel

Remarque's last novel and final installment in his sequence of novels about emigration and exile during World War II.

Remarque died before finishing this story of a German emigrant to New York. The world wanted a "last great" novel by the famous bestselling writer, so the manuscript was heavily edited and completed to become a bestseller. It was published in 1971 as SHADOWS IN PARADISE (German: Schatten im Paradies). Almost twenty-five years later, in 1998, the original manuscript was reconstructed and published as a fragment under its original title, THE PROMISED LAND (Das gelobte Land).


It is about a German emigrant and holocaust survivor in New York. It examines the sacrifices and compromises he has to make. It culminates in the bigger question: is criminal action from the past still punishable? Does guilt persist? Remarque's clear advance is: yes.

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Published by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co. KG , ISBN: 9783462305432

ISBN: 9783462305432