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H. G. Adler

Biography

H. G. Adler

H. G. Adler was the author of twenty-six books of fiction, poetry, philosophy and history. A survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, Adler later settled in England and began writing novels about his experience. Having worked as a freelance writer and scholar throughout his life, Adler died in London in 1988.

H. G. Adler

Books by H. G. Adler

The Wall
written by H. G. Adler, translated by Peter Filkins - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

When Random House published the first English translation of H.G. Adler’s THE JOURNEY in 2008, literary critics and historians alike came to recognize Adler as a neglected modern master, comparing him to Joyce, Woolf, Kafka and Gertrude Stein. Told in a powerful stream-of-consciousness style, THE WALL is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the past amidst the chaotic and competitive world of postwar exiles living in London.