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Ostend
By Volker Weidermann
176 pages;
Pantheon
Translated by Carol Brown Janeway
What good is art when the world is burning? That's the question animating this short true-life account of two Austrian authors who spend a final summer together while fleeing the Nazi ascendancy.
— Dotun Akintoye
Published 01/22/2016
