# The Promised Land

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- Authors: [Erich Maria Remarque](https://www.bookquiver.com/erich-maria-remarque)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-02-12
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, Fiction in translation

## Description

The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during World War II. From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years of wandering through a perlious, suffering Europe. Remarque's final novel, left unfinished at his death, tells of the precarious life of the refugee – life lived in hotel lobbies, on false passports, the strange, ill-assorted refugee community held together by an unspeakable past. For Somner, each new luxury - ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new suit, a new romance - has a bittersweet edge. Memories of war and inhumanity continue to resurface even in this peaceful promised land.

## Editions

### The Promised Land

- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9957-709-6
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2017-12-07
- Language: en_GB

### The Promised Land

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Michael Hofmann
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4813-826-5
- Published: 2015-02-12
- Language: en_GB