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Cherries of Freedom
A Report
Published by Diogenes as Die Kirschen der Freiheit
Original Title: Die Kirschen der Freiheit
When the opportunity arose at last, in the idyllic Italian countryside on the day of the Normandy landings in 1944 and until he was safely taken POW by the advancing American army, Andersch found himself in a wilderness, a place of freedom. The cherries he plucked from a tree were the cherries of freedom, and the taste of them was one Andersch had not known for all of the years of the Third Reich: the taste of freedom.
»A small gem: still brilliantly alive and relevant.
Kirkus Reviews
»›The Cherries of Freedom‹ is a unique testament to the pernicious boredom Fascism inflicted on a young man with heightened aesthetic sensibility, deprived of outlets for expression.«
Carolin McGinn
/ Times Literary Supplement, London
»Andersch's rambling coming-of-age story is grim, acutely self-aware, and written entirely in the first person with the barest taste of dialogue. (...) How all this adds up to such a compelling book is a mystery - but it does.«
Neal Wyatt
/ Publisher's Weekly, New York
»A small gem: still brilliantly alive and relevant.«
Kirkus Reviews