Triumph Arch (New Version)

Author:〔Germany〕Remarque, translated by Zhu Wen
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Remarque was a famous German writer of the 20th century, and this book is one of his representative works. Surgeon Lavik was arrested by the Gestapo for hiding a Jewish writer and suffered intense torture. After escaping from the concentration camp, he fled to France, living a precarious and unstable life, always in fear of being deported. One night, he met a homeless actress named Joan by the Seine River and fell in love with her due to their shared circumstances. Soon after, Lavik encountered the Nazi leader Hack, who had tortured and killed his wife years earlier, on the streets of Paris. To avenge his wife, he painfully left his lover Joan and devised various plans to track down Hack. Finally, one night, he lured the enemy into a forest and killed him. With the outbreak of World War II, Lavik and other émigrés were arrested by French police. The prison truck carrying them passed through the Arc de Triomphe, heading toward an uncertain distant destination.