Loved, hunted and unforgotten
Loved, hunted and unforgotten is an African novel by the German author Arnold Krieger , published in 1955. More than a million copies were printed in total, 883,000 by 1962 alone. The book made Krieger one of the most widely read post-war authors in Germany.
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Loved, hunted and unforgotten tells the odyssey of the African princess Liza, who was caught by slave hunters at the age of twelve and sold to the Arab landowner Abedi. She does labor there and eventually becomes Abedi's lover, although she is actually married elsewhere. After giving birth to a daughter, she finally dares to flee after the intrigues of Abedi's son. She flees to Zanzibar, but is expelled. Finally she returns to her homeland. There she chooses suicide in the crocodile river, where she falls victim to the crocodiles.
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- Arnold Krieger: Loved, hunted and unforgettable . Bertelsmann Lesering Verlag, 1958, 637 pages
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- ↑ Bestsellers in the Federal Republic of Germany - Number of copies of fiction by German authors published after 1945 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1962 ( online ).
- ^ Margarete Dierks: Krieger, Arnold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 43 f. ( Digitized version ).