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Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics)

Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Michael Hofmann (Translator), Michael Hofmann (Translator), Jenny Williams (Foreword), Hans Fallada (Author)

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Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In 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 makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes. Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 06 Feb 2014
ISBN 10: 0141392851
ISBN 13: 9780141392851
Book Overview: Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves- addiction, love, money.

Media Reviews
A powerful chronicler of human weakness shot through with hope * Times Literary Supplement *
Author Bio
Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1893 in Greifswald as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. His most famous works include the novels Little Man, What Now? and The Drinker. Fallada died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in Berlin.