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Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the main characters of postwar German literature is an indelible family portrait of Nazism little by little overtaking and poisoning a tiny town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of your youth fraught with troubles, yet filled with remembered love and handled by miracle. In the provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann basks in the love of the colourful staff and regulars at the Station Restaurant. Though his parents battle to make ends meet, around him the globe is abundant with secret: the fascination of girls; the power of words and his gift idea for music; his rivalry along with his closest friend, Adolf, boy of the local Brownshirt head; a circus that comes to town getting Anita, whose love he and Adolf compete to win. However in these crisis, with businesses failing throughout them and life cost savings gone in an instant, people whisper that only Hitler can save them. As the Nazis little by little infiltrate the churches, the institution, the young ones organizations - even the restaurant - and come to power, we look out of Johann's eyes the way the voices of dissent are silenced one at a time, until war begins the body count that will include his beloved old brother.
