In this remarkable book, Hugo Hamilton tells the story of individuals caught up in the turbulent last days of World War II.
Stationed in Czechoslovakia, lovers Bertha Sommer and Officer Franz Kern long to escape from the war and its consequences, but they are trapped between the advancing Red Army and the fear of their own system, which punishes desertion with death.
Meanwhile, an American contemporary, living in Germany, sets out on a mission to find the exact location of the last shot fired in the war, in a personal attempt to close this horrific chapter in humanity's history.
- ISBN10 0374184046
- ISBN13 9780374184049
- Publish Date 1 June 1992 (first published 19 August 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 175
- Language English