num_pages: 236
description: The Long Voyage is Jorge Semprún’s devastatingly honest and heartbreaking account of a young Spaniard captured fighting with the French Resistance, and the days and nights he spends in the company of 119 other men, in a cattle truck that rolls slowly but inexorably towards Buchenwald. During the seemingly endless journey, he has conversations that range from his childhood to speculations about the death camps. When at last the fantastic, Wagnerian gates to Buchenwald come into sight, the young Spaniard is left alone to face the camp.
language: English
title: The Long Voyage
titlecomplete: The Long Voyage
genres: France, World War II, Holocaust, Novels, Spanish Literature, War, Spain, Literature, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 846
places: Buchenwald
awards: name: Prix Formentor
publisher: Abrams Press