Mordecai Richler, A Choice of Enemies

3rd-book acidic american canadian europe mccarthy-era north-america opening-sentences paris red-scare satire scathing

Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.

Mordecai Richler, A Choice of Enemies

3rd-book acidic american canadian europe mccarthy-era north-america opening-sentences paris red-scare satire scathing

Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.

Mordecai Richler, A Choice of Enemies

3rd-book acidic american canadian europe mccarthy-era north-america opening-sentences paris red-scare satire scathing

Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.