by Michael Hofmann (Translator), Michael Hofmann (Translator), Ernst Haffner (Author)
Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of the Second World War. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Mar 2016
ISBN 10: 0099594048
ISBN 13: 9780099594048
Book Overview: Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty