Reunion by Fred Uhlman - Book Review

This is not so a great deal a novel as a novella, and a short one particular at that getting just 93 compact pages in length. But never let that place you off for this is a excellent study.

It opens in 1930's Germany in a clever senior college exactly where 15/16 year old boys, young guys, are generating mates, ostensibly for life. How have been they to know that so many lives would be reduce so tragically brief?

Just after a hesitant starting the shy Hans Schwarz becomes mates with the extra confident and aristocratic Konradin. Hans comes from a Jewish background and that issue sooner or later invades their friendship.

This period of history has been chronicled a million instances, and rightly so for there are lessons there that resonate down to the present day. All the characters are sharply drawn and memorable and for the most part, decent human beings. So exactly where did it all go so incorrect?

The book also includes a two page introduction written by the late and significantly missed Arthur Koestler, and that is properly worth reading on its own.

Reunion is beautifully written and quick to study, and this is absolutely a book for any one who can not abide the substantial tomes that so normally dominate the bookstores. It is not a new book either, but do not let that place you off for the reason that it is a pretty memorable 1, and a story that lives extended in the memory.

Jeffrey Archer wrote of Reunion: "I wish I had written this". He undoubtedly isn't alone in that, not least from your correspondent.

Reunion is published by Fontana books on ISBN: 0006151647 and is out there from most world-wide-web bookstalls.

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The book is obtainable in really hard copy or by immediate download, and can be ordered in any bookshop quoting ISBN 978 - 1847539304