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Alfred Andersch

Flight to Afar
A boy dreaming of Huckleberry Finn, a mortally ill Pastor, a disillusioned Communist, a young Jewish girl running for her life - meet in a half-derelict Baltic fishing village and are drawn into a daring plan of escape from Nazi Germany. At the center of their plan is a small statue in the Pastor's church...

Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-074-5 Pages: 100 8½"x5½" US$ 14.95
Publication date: May 2004   More Info...
Flight to Afar
The Cherries of Freedom
Alfred Andersch's desertion from the Wehrmacht in 1944 was the turning point in his life, and the obvious climax to his long-standing revulsion towards and opposition to the Third Reich. In The Cherries of Freedom, a great and humane book, he interpreted his desertion from the Germany army not as fear of death but as an existential vote for life, liberty and all things non-totalitarian.

Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-052-4 Pages: c.200 8½"x5½" US$ 19.95
Publication date: May 2004   More Info...
The Cherries of Freedom

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