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Taylor Caldwell

Time No Longer

On the eve of World War II, twin brothers are divided by the murder of a German Jew, in this epic tale from New York Times–bestselling author Taylor Caldwell.
Karl Erlich loves his country. But these are dangerous times for Germany, whose poor and downtrodden have been seduced by an Austrian sign painter named Adolf Hitler. Karl’s twin brother, Kurt, a distinguished scientist, has already pledged his allegiance to the Third Reich, a regime that Karl finds cruel and oppressive. But he soon has even more reason to fear: There is talk of the Nazis singling out the Jews for extermination. Karl and Kurt’s younger sister, Gerda, is engaged to Eric Rheinhardt, a German Jew. Before Gerda and Eric can escape to America, Eric is arrested by the Gestapo.
Then the unthinkable happens, and in the wake of searing tragedy, Karl cuts all ties with his brother. A onetime candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, he is no longer able to write, eat, or sleep. His wife, Therese, fears for his sanity. She knows she must get her husband away from the madness that is now Germany. But can she rescue her husband, who is rapidly becoming like their beleaguered Rhineland—inconsolable, frightened, and thirsting for revenge? As she seeks answers, unknowingly thrusting herself into harm’s way, Therese will discover the powerful ties that bind German to Jew, and come to realize that the only one way to save Karl is to save Germany.
Set in the years of the Nazis’ ascent to power, Time No Longer is at once a universal and intensely personal novel about the struggle against hate and fear that can elevate an ordinary man to extraordinary heights and the unassailable bond between two brothers.
475 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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  • Natanowicz Fabianshared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Una descripción muy culta y profunda de los terribles años del inicio del nazismo y las paradojas de las personas ante tan inmensa confusión y crimen!, excelente e interesante historia.

Quotes

  • Natanowicz Fabianhas quoted4 years ago
    Only the weak, the fundamentally unsound, the inadequate and the inferior, hated. In their hatred was a confession of inferiority. In their hatred was the seed of death, for only the strong can survive, and they were not strong.
  • Natanowicz Fabianhas quoted4 years ago
    He knows that bolshevism, National Socialism and fascism are one and the same manifestation of the will-to-power, the will-to-destruction, the will-to-hate, the will-to-enslave
  • Natanowicz Fabianhas quoted4 years ago
    “The National Socialists are right,” said the doctor. “The order of the present day is corrupt and decaying. But the National Socialists merely feed and fatten on it, like vultures.”
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