Has anybody read this book?

In Sean's first edition of his travel guide he sums up the book this way:

"An interesting autobiographical novel of a German Jew who fled Europe in the early days of WWII and was forced to reside in the rural Dominican Republic for the next decade. The picaresque film noir atmosphere makes for good reading, but conveys no small distaste for the country and its people."

Available from Northwestern UP. Their website states:

"The odyssey begins in Monte Carlo, where a narrator named Peter is covering the auto races for a German newspaper. Preferring life as an exile over a return to Nazi Germany, Peter bounces to Madrid, where he's branded a Nazi; covers the Spanish Civil War from the back room of a Vienna coffeehouse; and journeys to Belgrade, where all the cafe patrons without dark glasses are assumed to be spies. His final journey, however, is far from droll or ironic: he and his new bride must desperately search the Caribbean for a country that will allow them entry." (http://nupress.northwestern.edu/title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1448-8)


Have you ever read Samuel Hazard's "Santo Domingo Past and Present with a Glance at Hayti"? He was the ambassador sent down here by Ulysses Grant to have a look around and see if buying Samana was a worthwhile idea. Makes for very interesting reading, but while he quite liked DR, he hated Haiti.