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From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks'A young couple fall in love, get married and start a...
'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a...
“I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.” Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of “inward emigration”. Under...
A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser....
Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in BerlinIn these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict...
For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release.Then he gets out.As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he...
A powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin)It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the...
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as...
THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime thriller following one ordinary man's determination to...
"Dans la rue il y a de la poulaille. "Dégagez, bande de salopards!" je hurle, et je tire. Ils se mettent à courir, et moi aussi je cours, je remonte la rue et je tourne au coin, je longe l’autre rue. Je me dis, je peux me cacher parmi les gens ; mais ils courent devant...
La Seconde Guerre mondiale s’achève à peine dans ce bout de campagne allemande lorsque Herr Doll, un écrivain d’âge mûr, est désigné par les Russes maire par intérim de son village. Le couple qu’il forme avec sa jeune épouse, riche veuve d’une précédente union, ne...
Le quotidien d’un morphinomane. Un alcoolique cherche à se faire emprisonner pour arriver enfin à se désintoxiquer. Une paysanne au mari jaloux perd son alliance pendant la récolte des pommes de terre. Un cambrioleur rêve de retourner en prison où la vie est,...
Mai 1940, Berlin fête la campagne de France. La ferveur nazie est au plus haut. Derrière la façade triomphale du Reich se cache un monde de misère et de terreur. Seul dans Berlin raconte le quotidien d’un immeuble modeste de la rue Jablonski. Persécuteurs et persécutés...
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