All for Nothing - Kempowski, Walter
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Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the world.
Peter von Globig is twelve, and feigns a cough to get out of his Hitler Youth duties, preferring to sledge behind the house and look at snowflakes through his microscope. His father Eberhard is stationed in Italy - a desk job safe from the front - and his bookish and musical mother…mehr

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Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the world.

Peter von Globig is twelve, and feigns a cough to get out of his Hitler Youth duties, preferring to sledge behind the house and look at snowflakes through his microscope. His father Eberhard is stationed in Italy - a desk job safe from the front - and his bookish and musical mother Katharina has withdrawn into herself. Instead the house is run by a conservative, frugal aunt, helped by two Ukrainian maids and an energetic Pole. Protected by their privileged lifestyle from the deprivation and chaos around them, and caught in the grip of indecision, they make no preparations to leave, until Katharina's decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing.

Superbly expressive and strikingly vivid, sympathetic yet painfully honest about the motivations of its characters, All for Nothing is a devastating portrait of the self-delusions, complicities and denials of the German people as the Third Reich comes to an end.
Autorenporträt
Walter Kempowski, geb. 1929 in Rostock geboren, wurde 1948 aus politischen Gründen von einem sowjetischen Militärtribunal zu 25 Jahren Zwangsarbeit verurteilt. Nach acht Jahren im Zuchthaus Bautzen wurde er entlassen. Seit Mitte der sechziger Jahre arbeitete Kempowski planmäßig an der auf neun Bände angelegten "Deutschen Chronik", die er 1971 mit dem Roman "Tadellöser &Wolf" eröffnete und 1984 mit "Herzlich Willkommen" beschloss. Die "Deutsche Chronik" ist ein in der Literatur beispielloses Werk, dem der Autor das korrespondierende zehnbändige "Echolot", für das er höchste Anerkennung erntete, folgen ließ. Walter Kempowski verstarb am 5. Oktober 2007. Er gehört zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Autoren der Nachkriegszeit. 2002 wurde er mit dem Nicolas-Born-Preis des Niedersächsischen Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst ausgezeichnet. 2005 erhielt er den Thomas-Mann-Preis.