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The Long Voyage

The Long Voyageis Jorge Semprun'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.

Genre
war and militaryliterary fiction
Setting
holocaustworld war IIspain
Subject
historybiography
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 236 pages

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