About this title: Middle-class, Jewish Hans forms an intense friendship with Konradin, the young aristocrat in his class. A year later, it is over. Nothing remarkable, except that it is 1932 and we are in Germany. "Reunion" is a profound look at both the nature of friendship and the effect of Hitler's rise to power on the lives of all Germans.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780140047905ISBN:0140047905
Description: Good in Unknown jacket. Good to Very Good 0140047905 Tight spine, some cover wear and no markings. "A haunting story of doomed friendship in the shadow of the holocaust. " WWII Fiction (#80011) read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Not Available, Not Available
Date published: 0000
Description: Good in Good jacket. See Notes. Gently used paperback. ** PLEASE READ: This book is: UHLMAN, FRED: REUNION This is the book you will receive if you order this item. read more
Edition: American ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) 1977
Date published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780374249519ISBN:0374249512
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Edition: American ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Date published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780374249519ISBN:0374249512
Description: Good. Ex-library book, may contain library markings. Overall Good condition. May contain readers' names. Average shelf wear. Fast Shipping! ! ! Rely on our promptness and our ratings! ! ! read more
Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth
Date published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140047905ISBN:0140047905
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 112 pp.; 19 cm. First published, 1977. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Fred Uhlman was forced to flee Germany by the Nazis and became a painter in England; this is his first novel. read more
Edition: American ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780374249519ISBN:0374249512
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex) Library Copy. Moderate wear on Cover/Interior Pages. Usual library markings. (W3) 112 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fair. Farrar Straus & Giroux, First American Edition, 1977 With an Introduction by Arthur Koestler (hardback, dust jacket has some small tears/aging) read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, New York, USA
Date published: 1977
Description: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BE3-A first American edition uncorrected page proof/advance reading copy (ARC) in a trade paperback format book in very good condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in red wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus some light soiling on the top right outside paper edges plus a smudge about 0.5"x1.25" on the front cover near the center. With an introduction ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
Date published: 1977
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. Sticker damage on front. Light edge and corner wear. DJ shows some wear and tear and fading. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
"This novella, Fred Uhlman's entry into the world of fiction, was first published in 1970 when it went largely unnoticed. It was published again in 1977 and this time it captured the hearts of millions.
This is powerful stuff about what friendship is about: the story of two boys attending the same school, one comes from an aristocratic family, the other one is Jewish and from a middle-class family. Yet their friendship is over within a couple of years. This is Germany in the 1930s and this is a poignant story.
In his introduction, Arthur Koestler (1976) says: "When I first read Fred Uhlman's 'Reunion' some years ago, I wrote to the author (whom I only knew by reputation as a painter) that I considered it a minor masterpiece." Coming from Koestler, who wrote another such masterpiece 'Darkness at Noon' this is a compliment of the highest order. Both books are worthy of being read in the same light. Koestler, like a few others, recognized the book's merits when it was first published.
The opening lines of 'Reunion' are telling: "He came into my life in February 1932 and never left it again. More than a quarter of a century has passed since then, more than nine thousand days, desultory and tedious, hollow with the sense of effort or work without hope - days and years, many of them as dead as dry leaves on a dead tree. I can remember the day and the hour when I first set my eyes on this boy who was to be the source of my greatest happiness and of my greatest despair."
This novella is worth reading at least twice to grasp the significance of what Uhlman says in this short masterpiece, something that many writers fail to do in works of fiction three or four times its size. What Uhlman says, in this beautifully written work, affects us all."
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