{"id":266,"date":"2017-10-24T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T06:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=266"},"modified":"2025-08-25T04:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:30:37","slug":"crossing-a-love-story","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/crossing-a-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing: A Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>By\u00a0Anna Seghers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Translated by\u00a0Douglas Irving<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>ISBN: 978-1-935084-94-5 (pbk.)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-935084-96-9 (ebook)<br \/>\n166 pages: $16.00<br \/>\nOctober 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aboard a cargo ship sailing from Brazil to the German Democratic Republic in the mid-1950s, two men strike up a conversation: newly-qualified doctor, Ernst Triebel, and engineer Franz Hammer, two GDR citizens of contrasting character, brought together by chance on an Atlantic crossing. During the next three weeks Triebel will relate to Hammer what amounts to his life story. Hammer, a reluctant sea passenger, is initially uninterested, but once the love interest of the story\u2019s subtitle enters the fray he is gripped until the memorable climax to Triebel\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With loving attention to detail Anna Seghers describes people and events aboard the ship as the realistic backdrop to an epic yet deeply human story about individual struggle for identity and belonging. Seghers\u2019s carefully crafted and controlled narrative is a paean to the art of storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reader is invited aboard Seghers\u2019s borderless maritime community from the first page to share in this timeless meditation on the joy and pain of human existence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time of its publication in 1971,\u00a0<em>Crossing<\/em>\u00a0was described as the culmination of Anna Seghers\u2019s creative endeavors. A committed activist and writer who lived through many of the twentieth century\u2019s most horrific political and historical events and tackled them in deeply humanist writing, Seghers\u2019s exile literature from the 1940s, in particular\u00a0<strong><em>The Seventh Cross<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(1942\/46) and\u00a0<strong><em>Transit<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(1944), have been widely translated and received international acclaim. But her later work, written as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic, remains largely overlooked in English translation, until now. While the earlier work was set in the horror of World War II, this immaculately crafted novel seeks to counter global polarity during the Cold War era and demonstrates Seghers\u2019s firmly internationalist outlook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cWhen I speak of Anna Seghers I cannot but think of those who, alongside her, belong to the great writers who have come together out of love for truth, freedom, culture, peace and socialism, yes out of love for the fate of humanity.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Jorge Amado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c&#8230; in terms of the quality of her narrative style and scope of her narrative vision, Seghers was the greatest German woman writer of the twentieth century.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Helen Fehervary<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Your eyes are used to seeing, perceiving and understanding things unseen, things distant or lost. You capture them in your stories\u2026&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Pablo Neruda<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/2016\/11\/books\/sorrow-exile-and-cunning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brooklyn Rail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejewniverse.com\/2016\/the-best-german-jewish-woman-writer-youve-never-heard-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewniverse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/anna-seghers\/crossing-seghers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirkus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Seghers<br \/>\ntrans. 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