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