To Die in Spring

Resumen del libro

Walter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close.

Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit of the Waffen-SS, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, only to be captured and sentenced to death, the friends are reunited under catastrophic circumstances. In a few days the war will be over, millions of innocents will be dead, and the survivors must find a way to live with its legacy.

Biografía del autor

Ralf Rothmann nació en 1953 en Schleswig y creció en la región del Ruhr. Al finalizar la educación obligatoria, y tras un breve paso por la escuela de comercio, empezó a trabajar como albañil y desempeñó diferentes oficios, antes de dedicarse por completo a la escritura. Vive en Berlín desde 1976. Poeta y dramaturgo, es conocido sobre todo por novelas como Wäldernacht (1994), Milch und Kohle (2000), Junges Licht (2004) y Morir en primavera (2014).