'Love Thy Neighbor' (1939) is a novel about German emigrants forced to wander pre-war Europe. They hide, starve, and secretly cross borders; many of their loved ones are in concentration camps. Having lost their homeland and their familiar way of life, and facing mortal danger, Remarque's heroes still find the strength for compassion and love.
The novel was first published in 1941, immediately after its film adaptation.
Author: Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (German: Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark) was one of the best-known and most widely read German writers of the twentieth century.
He was born on 22 June 1898 in Osnabrück. He was the second of five children of the bookbinder Peter Franz Remarque (1867–1954) and Anna Maria Remarque, née Stallknecht (1871–1917). In his youth, Remarque was fascinated by the works of Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, and Johann Goethe.
In 1904 he entered a church school, and in 1915 a Catholic teachers’ seminary.…
