Pripovedovalec

Nikolaj Šturm, ninety-one and knowing he must be ready for anything, proposes a bargain to Sandra, a waitress at a bar nearby. Through marriage she will escape a gruelling, humiliating job and secure her future; he will not die alone, and he will tell his remarkable story and so not be forgotten. That story holds almost the whole twentieth century and almost the whole world. Nikolaj changed names, uniforms and ranks, found himself on battlefronts and in camps, was a prisoner, a lover and an interrogator, and was often caught up in history-making events, from which his resourcefulness, knowledge and great will to live always brought him out alive, if not unscarred. His intimate first-person account alternates with an omniscient narrator who fills in and explains.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

284 pages in the original

Genres

War, Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2020 by Goga

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789612772949 (original)