About the book: 2003 / Jorge Semprun (b. 1923) is a French writer and screenwriter of Spanish origin who has gained worldwide fame, a member of the Goncourt Academy. Semprun's new book is autobiographical, like the novel “The Long Way” written four decades ago, to which it is a kind of postscript. The reader will live one day with the twenty-year-old author in Buchenwald. The camp administration received a request from the Gestapo about the prisoner Semprun. For many, such interest ended in execution. The Buchenwald underground organization decides to save Semprun by swapping him with a young Frenchman dying in a hospital barracks…