Landscape in Concrete
ISBN-13: 9781934824146
Contributor(s): Jakov Lind
Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)
Publisher Imprint: Open Letter
Publication Date: 15-03-2009
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£13.99
About the book
Sergeant Gauthier Bachmann is the perfect Nazi soldier. But after a horrifying defeat at Voroshenko, where most of his Eighth Hessian Infantry Regiment was slaughtered in a single instant, Bachmann was declared mentally unfit to serve. Incapable of accepting this judgment, and of returning to his girlfriend and a quiet life as a gold- and silversmith, Bachmann wanders the war-ravaged countryside, trying to find a way to rejoin his regiment, or any regiment, and return to the front. Whilst wandering he is tormented by a series of figures from the underbelly of war.