Abschied (Parting) by Sebastian Haffner (1907–1999) is dominating the bestseller charts in Germany . It has been published posthumously, over 25 years after his death, after the manuscript was found in a drawer. The novel is a love story between Raimund, a young non-Jewish German student of law from Berlin, and Teddy, a young Jewish woman from Vienna. Raimund and Teddy meet on August 31, 1930, in Berlin and the novel covers the time they spend in Berlin and Paris together. Abschied was written between October 18 and November 23, 1932, just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the...
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