Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini

Benjamin's Crossing

Jay Parini

432 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction historical challenging reflective medium-paced
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It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin -- the German-Jewish critic and philosopher -- has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi tanks have overrun the suburbs, and Benjamin is forced to flee. With ...

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