![]() ![]() It is a short book, yet divided into nineteen numbered chapters. The book focuses on the impossible friendship between the narrator Hans Schwarz, son of a Jewish doctor, and Konradin von Hohenfels, a young aristocrat, during the rise of the Nazi regime (in 1932) in Stuttgart, Germany. His facility with the English language is remarkable for a non-native speaker this is a beautifully hewn text, a major contribution to the novella tradition in English, and a serious work of literature. Born in Stuttgart in 1901, the author worked as a lawyer in Germany, before fleeing the Nazis in 1933, moving to France, where he was a painter, then Spain, and by 1936 settled in the United Kingdom. ![]() The Penguin edition includes the information that the novella was written in 1960 and was Uhlman's first work of fiction. The novella was first published in 1971 in an edition of 700, plus 50 hors commerce signed and numbered by the author. Reunion (originally written in English ) is a novella by Fred Uhlman, set in Germany, seven years before the start of World War II. ![]()
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