New Releases by Erich Maria Remarque

A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust. After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe’s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow émigré, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy—and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front. With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat bound for America, a stranger approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell. It is a harrowing tale of bravery and butchery, daring and death, in which the price of love is beyond measure and the legacy of evil is infinite. As the refugee listens spellbound to the desperate teller, in a matter of hours the two form a unique and unshakable bond—one that will last all their lives. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine. For ten years, 509 has been a political prisoner in a German concentration camp, persevering in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation—or force their own—then their suffering will not have been in vain. Now the SS who run the camp are ratcheting up the terror. But their expectations are jaded and their defenses are down. It is possible that the courageous yet terribly weak prisoners have just enough left in them to resist. And if they die fighting, they will die on their own terms, cheating the Nazis out of their devil’s contract. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

Station am Horizont ist der schönste der frühen Romane Erich Maria Remarques, der viele Querverbindungen zu späteren Werken aufweist; in der Verknüpfung von Liebesgeschichte, mondänem Gesellschaftsleben, Autorennen und exquisiten Dialogen vor allem zu Der Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge. Es ist die Geschichte von dem Lebemann und Rennfahrer Kai, von Männerfreundschaft und Rivalität, von drei Frauen, von Ruhelosigkeit und Exzess in einer trägen, verwöhnten Gesellschaft. Ein schwungvoll geschriebener, atmosphärischer Roman und eine Entdeckung für jeden Remarque-Freund!

Dem regimekritischen Journalisten Robert Ross gelingt im letzten Augenblick die Flucht aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland nach Amerika. Doch das vermeintliche Paradies erweist sich als geborgte Heimat: Trotz der Liebe zu der schönen Russin Natascha bleibt er in der neuen Welt ein Fremder.

O campo de concentração que serve de quadro a ''A Centelha de Vida'' é puramente imaginário. É nele, porém, que Erich-Maria Remarque decide situar os factos mais concretos, as personagens mais humanas, eternas prisioneiras da ameaça constante de seu desaparecimento. Combinando imaginariamente elementos autênticos, Remarque compõe nestas páginas uma lição fundamental - a da precariedade do valor humano.

In de nacht voor in 1942 het laatste schip uit Lissabon naar Amerika vertrekken zal, vertelt een Duitse emigrant aan een lotgenoot het verhaal van zijn leven, dat sinds 1933 een aaneenschakeling was van vervolging, angst en vluchten uit concentratiekampen.