Station at the Horizon

The race car driver Kai is torn between three women: the down-to-earth, rooted Barbara; her foil, the elegant, independent and self-confident Lillian; and the rational, levelheaded Maud Philby, whom Kai will ultimately choose.

Remarque’s third novel was first serialized in 1927-28 and did not appear as a book until 1998. It is distinguished by the gripping depictions of car racing and the way the young Remarque grapples with the basic values of human existence between decadence and rationality.