''Shadows in Paradise'' (german: Schatten im Paradies) is a 1971 novel by

Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque (, ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German-born novelist. His landmark novel '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during Worl ...

. It is about a journalist, Robert Ross, who spent two years evading the

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hiding in an art museum, flees from Europe to the

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and settles in New York. He meets a woman named Natasha, begins a new career as an

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and travels to Hollywood. After the war is over, Ross eventually leaves the States. The book was cited for having a tone of "lambent gray romanticism". An English translation by

Ralph Manheim Ralph Frederick Manheim (April 4, 1907 – September 26, 1992) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. He was one of the most acclaimed translators of the 20th cent ...

was published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1972.

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1971 German novels Novels by Erich Maria Remarque {{1970s-hist-novel-stub