The enduring classic of a friendship torn apart by Nazism
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor was living in New York with her husband and working as a copywriter when Address Unknown was published in Story magazine. She later taught at Gettysburg College and is also known for her novel Until That Day. She died in 1996.
This modern story is perfection itself. It is the most effective
indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction. * The New York Times
Book Review *
A tale already known and profoundly appreciated by members of my
generation. It is to our part in World War II what Uncle Tom's
Cabin was to the Civil War. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Remarkably, despite the multitude of testimony and first-person
accounts of life under Nazism with which we've been deluged since
its first publication, this old, slim fiction manages to smuggle us
across time and space into one eloquent tale of perfidy. -- Anne
Karpf * Guardian *
That this short, fleeting story has lasted so long is not only
because of its artistic achievement, and not only because, written
in 1938, it astonishingly anticipated the horror that was yet to
come. It is because its prescience is not confined to its time. It
saw into our own future too. -- Jonathan Freedland * The Guardian
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Captivating, beautiful and unimaginably powerful, a book for our
times -- Philippe Sands
A short story with a long, dark echo; fierce, clever, and timely in
today's world. -- Julian Barnes
This stunning classic brilliantly defines what happens when people
are swept up in a poisonous ideology. -- Val Hennessy * The Daily
Mail *
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