![]() ![]() ![]() Joan and Ravic love each other, but cannot be together. While the novel does focus on Ravic’s struggle to work as a surgeon, despite being in France illegally, evading the police and coping with the fact that the man who tortured him just so happens to be in Paris, it all fades in comparison to the love story described. In 1939 Ravic, a German refugee and doctor, who has escaped to Paris after being tortured by a Nazi, meets an aspiring actress named Joan with whom he falls in love. From the author of ‘ All Quiet on the Western Front‘, a book which shocked everyone with its brutality and ruthless depictions of war, comes the most saccharine and overly sentimental love story I have ever read. ![]()
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