Al tiempo saga familiar y gran novela de guerra, esta obra se sit a en el noreste de Croacia y narra el destino de los Volksdeutsche, la minor a alemana asentada en la regi n desde el siglo XVIII. Reclutados por las Waffen SS durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, estos hombres y mujeres quedaron atrapados entre lealtades enfrentadas. Georg Kempf, el protagonista, es un soldado alem n a su pesar que, tras vivir el horror del conflicto, decide desertar. En el centro del relato se encuentra la tr gica historia de amor entre Georg y Vera, una partisana croata: dos antiguos enemigos unidos por una historia com n marcada por la violencia.
Both a family saga and a sweeping war novel, this book is set in northeastern Croatia and recounts the fate of the Volksdeutsche, the German minority that had settled in the region in the eighteenth century. Recruited into the Waffen SS during the Second World War, these men and women found themselves trapped between conflicting loyalties. The protagonist, Georg Kempf, is a German soldier "against his will" who, after witnessing the horrors of war, chooses to desert. At the heart of the narrative lies the tragic love story between Georg and Vera, a Croatian partisan--two former enemies bound together by a shared history marked by violence.