A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, “A Time to Love and a Time to Die,” is a poignant work about World War II, written from the perspective of a German soldier. The book tells the story of the young soldier Ernst Graeber, who returns during a brief leave to his native city, devastated by bombings, and finds love among the ruins. It is a story about humanity in an inhuman time, about searching for the meaning of life and moral values in a world engulfed by war and death.