The City beyond the River

The City beyond the River (German: Die Stadt hinter dem Strom') is a German language existentialist novel by Hermann Kasack, published in Der Tagesspiegel in 1946 and in a longer book version in Berlin in 1947. It is considered one of the most important novels written in Germany after World War II, dealing with the horrors of Nazi Germany, along with works such as Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus and Günter Grass' The Tin Drum.