The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down is a novel by American author John Steinbeck from 1942. The book is about a quiet Northern European village that unexpectedly raided by an army part of a foreign occupying power. The village is being invaded, because it can be of great strategic value. In the village is a coal mine which is important for keeping the war industry.

Although it is not explicitly mentioned, is from the location, the conditions and the period of time clear that it's about a village in Norway during the Second World War that is occupied by an army part of nazi Germany. The RAID has been prepared by a traitor from the local population, which has provided shelter and sensitive information about villagers has passed on to the occupier. Led by the Mayor and a number of stalwarts comes slowly, however, a silent but persistent resistance movement going. Incidents and retaliation then continue not matter, but the continuing resistance in time know to affect the morale of the occupying forces.



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[hide] *Design 1  ==Design[ Edit] == The book was by John Steinbeck, at that time already a respected and influential writer (and later winner of the Nobel Prize in literature) set up as a work in the framework of the war propaganda, with the aim of resistance movements in Europe to encourage. Initially he situated the story in the United States itself, but that was for obvious reasons by the US security services are not appreciated. Also the European refugees with whom the writer had advised him to contact the setting to move to Europe, making the book could have a greater impact. The latter also revealed the case: the story in depth in occupied Europe a large illegal distribution and was during and also after the war in many languages. Shortly after appearance in the United States it was already edited for a Broadway version and a film version appeared in 1943
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The work came to be on criticism in America also Steinbeck alone. He avoided in his book the appropriate clichéd images of the German soldiers as ruthless and heartless Brutes and put them down like ordinary people with their hobbies, quirks, homesickness, doubts and other ordinary human feelings. ==Title[ Edit] == The title of the work is taken from a phrase from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. In the second act to his son Fleance Banquo asks: "How goes the night, boy?" Fleance replies, "The moon is down; I have not heard the clock ", a pre-information notice of impending doom. ==Translation[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Moon is Down was already in 1944, wartime, by Tjebbo hemelrijk translated as The Flycatcher<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]. A reprint appeared in the sixties as Salamander pocket under the same title.