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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841955711

RRP: £12.99

PAGES: 354

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 9, 2006

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Angel of History

Bruno Arpaia

For a brief moment in 1940 the lives of a young Spanish militant and a reclusive academic of German and Jewish heritage are thrown together. Along with thousands of others across Europe, both men have fled their homeland in the face of fascist persecution. Yet, until the day their paths converge on a remote mountain pass between France and Spain, their experience of war has been vastly different. Based on true events of Benjamin’s life, and ranging from Paris’ Left Bank to the prison camps of southern France, “The Angel of History” explores how the history we think we know is not a series of events but rather a constellation of countless individual lives. And although every story is unique, each is founded on the same human desire – to be remembered.

Reviews of Angel of History

"Beautiful evocation of an improbable meeting, a tragic fresco of a time gone by." Telerama (France) "Arpaia magnificently reconstitutes the destiny of these two men." The World (Italy)

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