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Original Title:	Der Funke Leben
ISBN:	0449912515 (ISBN13: 9780449912515)
Edition Language:	English

Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance

Erich Maria Remarque

Paperback | Pages: 424 pages

Rating: 4.49 | 3682 Users | 147 Reviews

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SPARK OF LIFE

509 is a political prisoner in a German concentration camp. For ten years, he has persevered in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation--or force their own--then their suffering will not have been in vain.

Now the SS who run the camp are ratcheting up the terror. But their expectations are jaded and their defenses are down. It is possible that the courageous, yet terribly weak prisoners have just enough left in them to resist. And if they die fighting, they will die on their own terms, cheating the Nazis out of their devil's contract.

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Title	:	Spark of Life: A Novel of Resistance
Author	:	Erich Maria Remarque
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 424 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2014 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published 1952)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. European Literature. German Literature. World War II. Holocaust

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After *Reader, Come Home*, I performed a similar experiment to Wolf--I wanted to read a book that I had read before, and see if/how I could feel the same power. I haven't read this novel since before I got sick, and I'd forgotten almost everything about it except that I had loved it. I didn't remember who lived, who died, just an incredible sense of tragic bleakness. I concentrated reading slowly, forcing myself to go back and re-read passages I found myself skimming over. Remarque is great for

Spark of LifeRemarque knows how to transcribe a dramatic era with a clear and simple style. So, yes, they are dated books, but that's what makes it so good. A beautiful novel.

Never Forget. This book of historical fiction was an eye opening to the terrible horror the 'holocaust ' was to millions of people. (Lower case for emphasis). Having friends who's parents survived made this an even more impressive read. NEVER FORGET. JM

A brilliant (as it always is with Remarque) novel dedicated - if Im not mistaken - to the memory of his sister Elfriede who was executed after a trial at Nazi Germany's "People's Court" solely because of their family relation. Its definitely much darker than his other novels (Id say, even darker than All Quiet on the Western Front which certainly doesnt lack any blood and gore) but its uplifting nevertheless; uplifting in the small acts of resistance that concentration camp inmates still find

Remarque left me speechless ... again. Can't even write a review.

Remarque is certainly not a light read, but a very readable one. One thing about him that I find most interesting is the way he shows human adaptability - the everyday life in situations most people would not even begin to imagine. Be it the front in WW I or longterm prisoners in a concentration camp, even the worst things do end up shaping some kind of routine around them, no matter how terrible, and humans seem to grow used to things that they would not be able to imagine in normal

Every bit as graphic and grotesque in it's unflinching realism as 'All quiet...', and yet, equally as eloquent, arresting and poignant in it's poetical moments that contrast starkly with the harshness of the subject matter.Life went on in the camps and despite all, the debasement, the evil and cruelty, life, hope and humanity prevailed.A little known classic of WW11 literature.