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HOSTAGES - Stefan Heym - Putnam...
...Author Heym's publishers believe that Hostages is "the first really great novel to be written in English" by a refugee from the Nazis. Coming at a time when the tragic fate of flesh & blood hostages is a steady newspaper item, Author Heym's fiction is likely to sell on the strength of its title alone...
...Stefan Heym, 29, is editor of New York's anti-Nazi weekly Deutsches Volksecho. He fled the Gestapo in 1933. His father, seized as a hostage, later committed suicide. Author Heym's novel is dedicated to his father's memory...
...Author Heym approves Dr. Wallerstein's findings: that all men are not heroes in the face of death. When Commissioner Reinhardt's scheme finally won out and the hostages were shot, only burly, talkative, astute Hostage Janoshik left a noble record-which bore fruit in the blowing up of three ammunition barges on the morning of the execution...
...Author Heym's main theme is that even an imperfect, crushed human being can outwear a tyrant if he has the will to sacrifice, to die. As a craftsman Stefan Heym is not always equal to his exalted theme...