INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Persian, Tehran-based Qoqnoos Publishing Group has released the book, originally published in 2008.This novel by the German writer Walter
Kempowski, who died in 2007, is influenced by his mighty collection of diaries, letters and memoirs, Das Echolot (Echo Soundings), a
10-volume collage of the collective German experience throughout the Second World War
fortunes of a family in East Prussia, between January and May 1945
In January 1945, as the German army retreats from the Russian advance in East Prussia, a wealthy family seal themselves into their manor
They are cut off from the chaos around them - until they decide to shelter a stranger for the night
his series of novels called German Chronicle ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental Echolot ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical
reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War.Kempowski's first success as an author was the
