Эрих Мария Ремарк (Remarque Erich Maria)
STOLEN LOVE
Bob had seen too much.
First in the war. Then among the girls at the Café International,
his "comrades" of the street.
He moved among the lost and damned,
living on borrowed dreams and stolen love.
Lovely Patricia was just another refugee from boredom, more generous than most of the "soldiers of love."
But when her terrible secret threatened their relationship, Bob knew he had to stay and help her fight back.
Snatching warmth and pleasure on the run, their love became a burning protest against a corrupt and cynical world.
"It is unlike any love story that you have read, written with a superb simplicity and a directness, in its background and in its characters, that stamp Remarque as a great novelist—more than a great narrator of the horrors of war."
Boston HERALD
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Recognized as one of the world's outstanding novelists,
Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabruck, Germany,
and is now a United States citizen dividing his time between
New York and Switzerland.
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He established himself in the world of letters with the writing of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT and followed this great World War I novel with THREE
COMRADES,
ARCH OF TRIUMPH, SPARK OF LIFE, A TIME TO
LOVEAND
A TIME TO DIE and his very recent bestseller THE BLACK
OBELISK.
FROM THE REVIEWS
"The author of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT has written a very different, but hardly less memorable novel in THREE COMRADES. Erich Maria Remarque's new novel is less bitter, less intense, than his former one; it is long rather than short—and about the most readable work of Action published in a long while. It is a novel with a story so fascinating that it can't be laid aside; told through action and incident quickly and directly. It has the simplicity of greatness."
—ST. LOUIS STAR-TIMES
"The qualities which distinguish Remarque as a writer are abundantly displayed in THREE COMRADES. Simplicity and strength, humor and tenderness, a poet's sensitive reactions both to the things that are tangible and to those that are not—all these have been united in his work from the beginning, but to them there is added now, I think, a growing power of characterization . . . There is evident for the first time the power to build up the story of the unfolding of a human relationship—for THREE COMRADES has for its focus one of the most poignant love stories that have been told in our time."