Schöne Aussicht

The Kempowski family in the 1920s and the early years of the Hitler regime. Karl Kempowski and his young wife Grethe have a difficult start in Rostock after the end of World War I. They have to forgo a bourgeois villa and rent a place in a working-class neighborhood. The economic depression takes a heavy toll on the small family shipping company. Three children are born, including the author. His school years coincide with the time when Germany's doom begins. Walter Kempowski tells the story of this family and all those who cross their path with the precision, humor, and subtle irony that are uniquely his own.