Tehran – A Persian translation of the book “Heaven is Favorites,” written by German author Erich Maria Lemarc, was released in Iranian bookstores.
Ajdar Angoshtari translated the book, and Ofogh’s publication published it on 360 pages, Mehr reported.
This novel is a bittersweet story of unconventional love that cleans up Europe from the author of the classic All Quiet of the Western Front, one of the master novelists of the 20th century.
This is a story about passion and love set in the background of car racing in 1948. Inspired by racing driver Alfonso de Portago.
The main character, Clerfayt, is a car racer who goes to a Swiss sanatorium to visit fellow racers Hollmann, who suffers from tuberculosis. There he meets Lillian, a young Belgian woman who suffers from tuberculosis. She has no opportunity for treatment and wants to be on that terminal stage and enjoy her final months rather than waiting for her to die. She has been talking about leaving the hospital for several months and has never experienced it.
This changes when her friend dies in the hospital, and she realizes that the body is not named. They are given numbers and treated like cargo. Not wanting to be a nameless body, she decides to leave Bela Vista Sanatorium with Clerfayt after going out with him the night before.
Together, they travel around Europe, but Lillian indulges in gorgeous dresses and food, spending the money she inherited, which is saved by her uncle. Eventually, they fall in love and Clelfight begins to want a future with her. However, when he expresses his desire to settle down and wants to visit a doctor, she internally realizes that within a few months by marrying Clelfight he will be a widow, and rejects the idea.
She loves him, but she decides to leave him before they start real life together. In one race, after a race before him crashes, Clelfight is seriously injured and dies in the hospital. The devastated Lillian returns to Switzerland. On the way there, she meets Holman, who is now healed, and he is offered a previous job in Clelfight. Six weeks later, Lillian passed away. It is said to be a moment of peace, as if even the scenery had stopped breathing.
Erich Maria Lemarck (1898-1970) was a German novelist. His groundbreaking novel, All Quiet On the Western Front (1928), was an international bestseller that created a new literary genre for veterans writing about conflict, based on their experiences in the Imperial German army during World War I. This book has been adapted to filming several times.
Remarque’s anti-war theme led his accusations by Minister Nazi Propaganda Joseph Goebbels as “unattractive.” He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee and as the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.
He reads the author’s literature most widely in the 20th century under his pen name, Erich Paul’s remarks.
German history in the 20th century essentially presents a biography of Rimerk, which fundamentally influences his writing: childhood and youth, the Weimar Republic, and most of all his exiles are in exile in Switzerland and the United States. The first publication was recognized worldwide and continues today.
Remarque’s novels have been translated in over 50 languages. Globally, the total edition will be millions of copies sold.
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