stefan haim who was it was an author who as a jew left germany in the early thirty's for the u.s. where he became an american citizen but as a committed socialist he returned to his native eastern germany at the time under communist rule believing it to be the better system for his novel the architect's resonates with 1st hand experience of what amounted to be a great disillusion. the trail even you've experienced it at some point your best friend blurted out your biggest secret your partner cheated on you or your hairdresser suddenly decided to get creative well you can dry your tears now because all that stuff was peanuts. in. the architect's buy stuff on highway is about a man named arnold who betrays his friends his family and his ideals arnold is an architect and a communist like many german communists after world war 2 he comes back from exile in the soviet union to help build east germany his job is to design an imposing new boulevard called world peace road it's a thinly veiled reference to this very real street in former east berlin today it's called karl marx back then i