L'amico ritrovato

Reunion (originally written in English) is a novella by Fred Uhlman, set in Germany, seven years before the start of World War II. The novella was first published in 1971 in an edition of 700, plus 50 hors commerce signed and numbered by the author. The Penguin edition includes the information that the novella was written in 1960 and was Uhlman's first work of fiction. Born in Stuttgart in 1901, the author worked as a lawyer in Germany, before fleeing the Nazis in 1933, moving to France, where he was a painter, then Spain, and by 1936 settled in the United Kingdom. His facility with the English language is remarkable for a non-native speaker; this is a beautifully hewn text, a major contribution to the novella tradition in English, and a serious work of literature.