Arc de Triomphe

Author: Remarque
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Remarque was a famous German writer of the 20th century, and this book is one of his representative works. Surgeon Lavik is arrested by the Gestapo for hiding a Jewish writer and suffers intense torture. After escaping from the concentration camp, he flees to France, living a precarious and unstable life, always at risk of being deported. One night, he meets a homeless actress named Joan by the Seine River and falls in love with her due to their shared circumstances. Soon after, Lavik encounters the Nazi leader Hack, who had tortured and killed his wife years earlier, on the streets of Paris. To avenge his wife, he painfully leaves his lover Joan and sets out to track down Hack, eventually luring him into a forest one night and killing him. World War II breaks out, and Lavik, along with other refugees, is arrested by French police. The prison truck carrying them passes through the Arc de Triomphe, heading toward an uncertain distant destination.