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Sansibar oder der letzte Grund
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Flight to Afar

Published by Diogenes as Sansibar oder der letzte Grund
Original Title: Sansibar oder der letzte Grund
A boy dreaming of Huckleberry Finn, a mortally ill Pastor, a disillusioned Communist, a young Jewish girl running for her life - meet in a half-derelict Baltic fishing village and are drawn into a daring plan of escape from Nazi Germany. At the center of their plan is a small statue in the Pastor's church, a statue which is to be confiscated because it is politically dangerous, a statue so beautiful and powerful that it welds together the strangely assorted band of refugees. This unusual novel - unusual in both form and content - is a masterpiece of condensed dramatic writing. Andersch investigates the many needs for flight and the strange loyalties which sometimes make escape impossible.

General Fiction, Compulsory Reading
224 pages
1970

978-3-257-00908-8
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»A wonderful book.«
Wolfgang Koeppen
»The force of Andersch's rejection of ideologies is matched by the strength of his belief in simple human decency: ›Flight to Afar‹ is at once a parable of free will and of the responsibility of the individual.«
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
»A master of German prose.«
Max Frisch
»A wonderful book.«
Wolfgang Koeppen
»The force of Andersch's rejection of ideologies is matched by the strength of his belief in simple human decency: ›Flight to Afar‹ is at once a parable of free will and of the responsibility of the individual.«
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
»A master of German prose.«
Max Frisch
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