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Benjamin's Crossing

Benjamin's Crossing

Parini, Jay

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0525562753
ISBN13: 9780525562757
Publisher: Anchor
Published: Feb 9 2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini.

It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With a battered briefcase that contains his precious manuscript of a thousand handwritten pages, he sets off for the border and is led by chance to a young anti-Nazi who is taking Jews and other refugees over the Pyrenees into Spain, where they may (with luck) make their way to freedom in Portugal or South America.

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