num_pages: 811
description: A young German joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, and Soviet composer Shostakovich labors under Stalinist oppression in this daring novel of human actions in wartime.
language: English
title: Europe Central
titlecomplete: Europe Central
characters: Kurt Gerstein, Roman Karmen, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Fanya Kaplan, Käthe Kollwitz, Andrey Vlasov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Friedrich Paulus, Hilde Benjamin, Nadezhda Krupskaya
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, American, Literature, Novels, Germany, Historical Fiction, Russia, World War II
ratings_count: 2822
places: Dresden, Eastern Europe, Leningrad, USSR, St. Petersburg, Germany, Berlin, Moscow, Russia, Stalingrad, USSR
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Gold), awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse
category: Übersetzung, awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης Αγγλόφωνης Λογοτεχνίας ΕΙΛΜ
publisher: Alma Books