description: Artur Sammler has known the pleasures of England in the 1920s and 1930s; he has survived the war, the camps, a death ditch; he is a man who has lasted. Moving through the Upper West side of New YOrk City, attentive to everything and appalled by nothing, he now ponders o the meaning of life. Mr. Sammler speculates on events he sees with curiosity and disinterestedness and onthe present life and on the future of this planet.
language: English
title: Mr. Sammler's Planet
titlecomplete: Mr. Sammler's Planet
characters: Margotte Arkin, Wallace Gruner, Elya Gruner, Shula Sammler, Eisen, Artur Sammler, Lionel Feffer, Angela Gruner, Govinda Lal
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, 20th Century, Jewish, Novels, The United States Of America, American, Nobel Prize, Classics
ratings_count: 3620
places: New Rochelle, New York, New York (State), New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Viking