A review by platanus
Transit by Anna Seghers

5.0

One of those books you read through while fighting the urge to stop and quote sentences or whole paragraphs almost every page, Anna Segher's masterpiece has not earned a name among German exile literature without an abundance of good reasons. If you do not know German, I hope you can find a good translation - the book was first published in Spanish, so Spanish speakers have that problem solved - because the flow of the narration brings you awfully close to the protagonist.

With all that is going on in the world right now, and being portrayed in the media, it might be the best and the worst time for my generation to read this book.