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Books by Stefan Heym

Stefan Heym is representative of many intellectuals in the former East Germany who found themselves torn between loyalty to the ideals of their state and disdain for the reality. He was born into a secular Jewish family in Chemnitz. As a young man, he went to the United States to escape Hitler, where he worked for a while as a journalist. In 1943 he joined the American army. His first novel, The Crusaders (1948), became a best-seller. It was loosely based on his wartime experiences and filled with contempt not only for the Nazi government, but for virtually all of German culture. Distressed by the rise of McCarthyism in the United States and by Western tolerance of former Nazi officials, Heym emigrated to East Germany in 1953 and gave his enthusiastic support to the Socialist aspirations of his new homeland. His disillusionment with East Germany was far more gradual and, by his own account, more difficult than that experienced in the United States. In 1976 Heym protested the forced emigration of singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann from the German Democratic Republic. Two years later he was fined and expelled from the East German Writers' Union for accepting royalties for work published abroad. Though Heym continued to believe that the GDR was the "better-half" of Germany, disillusion with the reality of socialism moved him to turn to his Jewish heritage for inspiration in novels such as The King David Report (1972) and The Wandering Jew (1984). In 1992 he became a founding member of the "Committee for Justice," a lobby representing the interests of former East Germans in a newly united Germany.
Radek By Stefan Heym
Radekby Stefan Heym
New
$55,49
inc. GST
Queen Against Defoe By Stefan Heym
Queen Against Defoeby Stefan Heym
Well Read
$23,99
inc. GST
King David Report By Stefan Heym
King David Reportby Stefan Heym
Good
$25,99
inc. GST
Wandering Jew By Stefan Heym
Wandering Jewby Stefan Heym
Very Good
$18,99
inc. GST
King David Report By Stefan Heym
King David Reportby Stefan Heym
Well Read
$22,99
inc. GST
Wandering Jew By Stefan Heym
Wandering Jewby Stefan Heym
Very Good
$59,99
inc. GST
King David Report By Stefan Heym
King David Reportby Stefan Heym
Very Good
$11,99
inc. GST
Collin By Stefan Heym
Collinby Stefan Heym
Very Good
$26,49
inc. GST
Auf Sand gebaut/Filz By Stefan Heym
Auf Sand gebaut/Filzby Stefan Heym
Good
$13,69
inc. GST