“What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Night in Lisbon
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Erich Maria RemarqueOriginal title Die Nacht von Lissabon (German, 1962)
The Night in Lisbon is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque published in 1962. It revolves around the plight of two German refugees in the opening months of World War II. One of the refugees relates their story during the course of a single night in Lisbon in 1942. The story he recounts is mainly a romantic one, and also contains a lot of action with arrests, escapes and near-misses. The novel is realistic, Remarque was himself a German refugee , and provides insight into refugee life in Europe during the early days of the war. The book completed what was known as Remarque’s "emigre trilogy" along with Flotsam and Arch of Triumph. It was Remarque's last completed work.
“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Night in Lisbon
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