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Arch of Triumph

By: Erich Maria Remarque
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
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 It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic, a German doctor and refugee living in Paris, has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.

Forbidden to return to his own country and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on, all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he's given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times.

©1945 Erich Maria Remarque, renewed 1972 by Paulette Goddard Remarque (P)2004 Blackstone Audiobooks, published by arrangement with the Estate of Paulette Goddard Remarque Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

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"A great writer....[Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend his language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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While the story is sometimes interesting I found it uphill work after halfway through where it becomes endlessly repetitious and full of wearisome wrangling between the two mismatched lovers. It is also far too long. Not a patch on this author's wonderful books about soldiering at the front line. The reader sounded flat and I don't blame him.

Not his best

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I was disappointed with this book. Remarque is an excellent writer and storyteller usually and the book has some lovely passages in it . However,. I didn’t like the protagonist or the other characters in this book and found the story a bit tedious . It’s a romantic story set in the context of 1939 . While it gives a perspective on the day to day life of a refugee surgeon of the time it takes too long to come to resolution.. The narrator s tone and style didn’t suit this book . He is more suited to non fiction work

Love story in Paris in 1939

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