Benjamin's Crossing

<p><i>There is no such thing as history you see. It's a dream perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .</i><br><br>Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away by death in a small town on the border between Spain and France. His thousand-page manuscript carried the length of France during his flight from the Nazis has vanished with him never to be recovered. <br><br>Jay Parini's extraordinary novel traces Benjamin's steps back through time from the salons of Berlin to the winding roads of Catalonia. A tale of escape and pursuit <i>Benjamin's Crossing </i>dramatises one of the most moving peripheral episodes of the Holocaust; and above all it is a love story.</p>