House of exile
Subtitle: war, love and literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles
By: by Evelyn Juers
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781846144615
Subjects: Exiles; Authors' spouses; German Authors; Exiled Authors; Exile; Exile (Punishment); Biography
Description: "In 1933 the writer and political activist Heinrich Mann, meticulously dressed in a suit, starched collar and bow tie, escaped from Germany carrying nothing more than an umbrella and a briefcase filled with manuscripts. Soon, he knew, the Nazis would come for him. He never saw his homeland again..." -- p [2] of cover.