About the book: 1989 / The new novel by a West German writer widely known in the Soviet Union continues the clearly defined, confident and firm humanistic line of his work; Z. Lenz tells how the former training ground of the Nazi Wehrmacht, a crippled land that retains the memory of only a forged soldier’s boot, turns after the defeat of the Reich - through the efforts of an honest and hardworking person - into a blooming garden. The problems posed in the novel include it among the works that raise the main, key issues of our time, showing the fate of people in the modern world.