THE DESCISION (DE BESLISSING) (DIE ENTSCHEIDUNG)
Book ID/图书代码： 13356013B61685
English Summary/英文概要： In 1933 at the beginning of Hitler’s reign, Thomas Mann decided not to return to Munich, where he had lived for many years. He was
warned by family and friends during a holiday visit to Arosa in
Switzerland not to go back home, because they were afraid that he would be arrested. The Nazis had confiscated his possessions and only with great difficulty did he succeed to smuggle some of his furniture, his manuscripts and some money out of the Third Reich.
Britta Böhler’s intriguing novel follows the Nobel laureate during
three crucial days in 1936. The reader accompanies Thomas Mann when he visits the Neue Zürcher Zeitung to hand over his open letter to the newspaper’s famous editor-in-chief with a definite No to the Nazis. After leaving the building he is tortured by doubt.
His Berlin publisher Bermann-Fischer, a Jew, will be furious with this unwelcome spotlight on Thomas Mann’s publishing house Fischer. Will the Nazis ban and burn his books? Isn’t he
abandoning his faithful readers in the Third Reich, while choosing for the safety of exile in Switzerland? And what will happen if the Nazis confiscate his diaries with his most intimate homo-erotically tinged confessions?
Böhler succeeds in following one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century as a family man, a husband, a father, a writer, a man with moral doubts. And we, the readers, see a
human soul like all of us trapped in a historical setting that forces him to choose between two equally impossible choices.
As Thomas Mann documented these three days only sparsely in his diaries, the novel fills this gap in the most convincing way – though always based on true historical facts. It shows
a universal conflict that mirrors a human nightmare: to lose and confuse the moral implications of right and wrong.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1933年德国开始在希特勒的统治下，托马斯•曼决定不回到住了很多年的慕尼黑。他在瑞士的阿洛萨度假期间，收到了家人和朋友的警告，不要回家，因为他们害怕他会被逮捕。纳粹没收了他的财产，他费了好大的劲才将他的一些家具，手稿和财产转移出了第三帝国。
这是布丽塔•伯乐写的一本有趣的小说，讲述了诺贝尔经济学奖获得者在1936年关键时刻的生活。读者将一直陪伴着托马斯•曼，他到新苏黎世报把他的公开信——明确的拒绝纳粹交给了报纸的著名编辑，当他走出这栋大楼后，他被疑问折磨。
他在柏林的出版商菲舍尔，一个犹太人，会大发雷霆，因为不受欢迎的聚焦点集中在托马斯•曼的菲舍尔出版社。纳粹禁止他的书并烧了？当他选择在瑞士安全流亡的时候没有放弃他的忠实读者？如果纳粹没收他的日记并且他最亲密的同志招供了会发生什么？
伯乐成功的塑造了二十世纪最伟大的作家之一——一个有家室的人，一个丈夫，一个父亲，一个作家以及一个有道德疑虑的人。我们的读者，看到一个人的灵魂，就像是我们所有人被困在一个历史背景，迫使他在两个不可能的选择间做选择。
托马斯•曼只在他的日记中稀疏的记载了这三天的生活，小说中用有说服力的方式填补了这个空白——虽然始终立足于真实的历史事实。它显示了一个反映了人类噩梦的普遍冲突：丢失和混淆了正确与错误的道德含义。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：‘The debut novel by professor advocacy Britta Böhler about three days in the life of Thomas Mann is no
simple excursion but the start of authorship.’ – de Volkskrant
‘Her clear written debut novel cuts into an interesting theme and makes for a clever portrait of the
wavering author Thomas Mann.’ – Trouw
‘The book portraits a Thomas Mann who will move you page by page.’ – NRC Handelsblad
About the Author/作者介绍： 布丽塔•伯乐（1960）是有德国血统的荷兰政治律师，她的客户名单包括库尔德工人党反政府武装领导人阿卜杜拉•奥贾兰，希尔西•阿里，以及暗杀了荷兰的极端主义政客皮姆杜恩的年轻人。她还参与了一些恐怖主义审判和涉及荷兰的秘密服务的案件。根据在法庭上的经验基础，她在2007年和罗德尼•博尔特合写了集中在阿姆斯特丹身上的犯罪惊悚三部曲。Britta Böhler (1960) is a Dutch political lawyer of German descent, whose list of clients include PKK rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan, Ayan Hirsi Ali, and the young man who
assassinated the Dutch extremist politician Pim Fortuyn. She has also been involved in a number of terrorism trials and cases involving the Dutch secret service. In 2007 she co-wrote
a thriller trilogy set in Amsterdam with crime author Rodney Bolt, based on her experiences in court.
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