Arch of Triumph: A Novel (1st Ballantine Books ed.)

The evocative story of a man without a country, Arch of Triumph is a World War IIera classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front.

It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravica German doctor and refugee living in Parishas been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.

Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang onall the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he's given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times. ';The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque.

He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will.

Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.'The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Trade Paperback edition.