The Brass Age

'Like Olga Tokarczuk, ?najder has written a novel about a Europe that has lost its diversity and has beendestroyed by fascism, communism and, in recent times, nationalism ... a modern epic' Le Monde'A masterpiece' La RepubblicaThe very next day processions of young men, some still children, began to move around the little town of Nu?tar, with drums providing a steady rhythm ...These young men came from German families, Germans living outside the Reich, Volksdeutsche.Some stayed in their houses, some were shut up in the storeroom by their mothers, but as time went on more and more of them followed the drumming ... 1769. A hungry year in Germany. Kempf the ancestor departs his homeland with his compatriots in search of a brighter future.Years pass and generations of Germans make Slavonia their home.But in 1940, when Europe is at war once more, this minority, the Volksdeutsch, are called to fight for the Reich, for a land now foreign to them. Among their ranks is Georg Kempf, the narrator