# House of Exile

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- Book: [House of Exile](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-juers/house-of-exile) ([House of Exile.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-juers/house-of-exile.md))
- Authors: [Evelyn Juers](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-juers)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-420-1
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2012-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When the Nazis began destroying lives across Europe and artists became state enemies, Nelly Kroeger, a tall, blonde ex-barmaid, and writer and political activist Heinrich Mann - twenty-seven years her senior and top of the list at Goebbels's book-burnings - fled together, first to France, then to Los Angeles. Interweaving stories from their friends, relatives and literary contemporaries - Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Virginia Woolf - House of Exile tells the remarkable story of Nelly and Heinrich, a couple divided by class and their own families, and of their unconventional love in a time of war.