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Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers

by Michael Hofmann (Translator), Michael Hofmann (Translator), Ernst Haffner (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 09 Jul 2015
ISBN 10: 1846558638
ISBN 13: 9781846558634
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

Media Reviews
An enthralling and significant novel, authentic in its gritty documentary detail... This raw honesty, along with Michael Hofmann's masterly translation... makes the book so contemporary and vital -- Rory MacLean Financial Times An astonishing novel, every bit as astonishing in a different way as Fallada's Alone in Berlin, and deserves to have the same success Scotsman The characters are engaging, and multidimensional. You care what happens to them Wall Street Journal Like a karate chop: hard and direct, but true Der Spiegel A real discovery Literarische Welt
Author Bio
Ernst Haffner was a journalist and social worker. His only known novel Blood Brothers was published to wide acclaim in 1932, before it was banned by the Nazis one year later. In the 1940s, all records of Haffner disappeard. His fate during the Second World War remains unknown.