Vítězný oblouk - 2 CDmp3 (Čte Martin Preiss)

This Czech-language audiobook presents Erich Maria Remarque’s Arch of Triumph, read by Martin Preiss. Ravic is a man without a face or a homeland. A German surgeon who fled the Nazi inferno, he now lives illegally in Paris. Without papers or a future, he performs operations under assumed names in private clinics, while at night he wanders the streets like a shadow. He has wrapped his heart in ice and cynicism to survive in a world that has gone mad. Only one desire drives him now: to find the Gestapo officer who once hounded his fiancée to her death. Nothing changes this, not even his fateful meeting with Joan Madou, a woman as passionate and damaged as he is. Their relationship is far from a romantic idyll; it is more like the bond between two desperate survivors amid the collapse of the old world. Yet the desire for revenge proves stronger than the fear of deportation and stronger than his love for Joan, turning the devoted doctor into a merciless hunter. One of Remarque’s best-known books reflects much of the fate of the author himself and his generation, whose youth was marked by the First World War and later by the rise of Nazism. Completed during Remarque’s American exile, the novel became a bestseller soon after publication and was also successful on the screen.