by Siegfried Lenz · Gennep B.V., Uitgeverij Van · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789461644237
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«De overloper» is the war novel by Siegfried Lenz, published by Uitgeverij Van Gennep in paperback (237 pages, in Dutch).
Proska, a 28-year-old Wehrmacht soldier, returns from leave to the Eastern Front. During the journey he meets Wanda, who carries her brother's ashes; the train hits a partisan mine. Proska joins a detachment pursuing partisans in the Rokitno marshes, and his reunion with Wanda awakens his conscience.
Original title: Der Überläufer. Posthumous work found after the author's death and first published in 2016; the Dutch translation is by Gerrit Bussink.
For readers of historical and war fiction, particularly those interested in twentieth-century German literature and moral dilemmas during the Second World War.
Siegfried Lenz was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth. He won the 2010 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
