Flight Without End

“An almost perfect novel”  — Rolling Stone

A soldier travels through Europe on a doomed mission to track down his fiancée in this masterful and vivid evocation of life between the wars

Franz Tunda, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, is captured by the Russians in World War I. Imprisoned in Siberia, he escapes to a remote farm, hiding out in such deep cover that he only learns of the end of the war months after the final shots have been fired. When peace is at last declared, Tunda pulls out a crumpled photo of a fiancée he doesn’t know—Irene is simply a beautiful face who represents the world before—and sets off in search of home.

But the old order has vanished, and… Keep Reading