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Previously unpublished stories by the bestselling author of Alone
in Berlin. In September 1925, Hans Fallada handed himself in to the
police. Not yet a bestselling author, Fallada had repeatedly
embezzled funds to finance his alcohol and morphine addictions.
Desperate to escape his demons, he sought a prison cell. Now court
documents from Fallada's imprisonment have recently been uncovered,
and with them a never-before-seen collection of short stories.
Through complex characters at odds with society, Fallada explored
the lived the lives of women and male outsiders. These stories
reveal to a new generation of readers Fallada's immense gifts and
his intense inner battles.
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Alone in Berlin (Paperback)
Hans Fallada; Translated by Michael Hofmann
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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 defy the tyranny of Nazi rule Berlin, 1940, and
the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse,
its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their
different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the
retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna
Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son
has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet
existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly
game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the
ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge
and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder
ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks ... This
Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as
well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the
novel. 'Terrific ... a fast-moving, important and astutely deadpan
thriller' Irish Times 'An unrivalled and vivid portrait of life in
wartime Berlin' Philip Kerr 'To read Fallada's testament to the
darkest years of the 20th century is to be accompanied by a wise,
somber ghost who grips your shoulder and whispers into your ear:
"This is how it was. This is what happened"' The New York Times
A gripping portrait of life in wartime Berlin and a vividly
theatrical study of how paranoia can warp a society gripped by the
fear of the night-time knock on the door. Based on true events,
Hans Fallada's Alone In Berlin follows a quietly courageous couple,
Otto and Anna Quangel who, in dealing with their own heartbreak,
stand up to the brutal reality of the Nazi regime. With the
smallest of acts, they defy Hitler's rule with extraordinary
bravery, facing the gravest of consequences. Translated and Adapted
by Alistair Beaton (Feelgood, The Trial Of Tony Blair), this timely
story of the moral power of personal resistance sees the Gestapo
launch a massive hunt for the perpetrators and Otto and Anna
finding themselves players in a deadly game of cat and mouse. This
edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Royal
and Derngate Theatre in February 2020.
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
family, like countless young couples before them. But Lammchen and
'Boy' live in Berlin in 1932, and everything is changing. As they
desperately try to make ends meet amid bullying bosses, unpaid
bills, monstrous mothers-in-law and Nazi streetfighters, will love
be enough? The novel that made Hans Fallada's name as a writer,
Little Man, What Now? tells the story of one of European
literature's most touching couples and is filled with an
extraordinary mixture of comedy and desperation. It was published
just before Hitler came to power and remains a haunting portrayal
of innocents whose world is about to be swept away forever. This
brilliant new translation by Michael Hofmann brings to life an
entire era of austerity and turmoil in Weimar Germany. 'An inspired
work of a great writer ... Fallada is a genius. The "Little Man" is
Mr Everybody' Beryl Bainbridge 'There are chapters which pluck the
nerves...there are chapters which raise the spirits like a fine day
in the country. The truth and variety of the characterization is
superb...it recognizes that the world is not to be altered with
moral fables' Graham Greene 'Fallada deserves high praise for
having reported so realistically, so truthfully, with such
closeness to life' Herman Hesse 'Fallada at his best' Philip
Hensher 'Performs the most astounding task, of taking us to a
moment before history' Los Angeles Review of Books
'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
concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here
are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman
Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson;
essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories
surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern
Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of
outer space.
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
still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a
world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible act,
he is ensnared in a noose of his own making... Hans Fallada's dark
and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal
underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our
actions always catch up with us.
Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable
novel about the desolation of Hitler's post-war Germany. Late
April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and "moderate
pessimist", lives in constant fear. By night, he is haunted by
nightmarish images of the bombsite in which he is trapped--he, and
the rest of Germany. More than anything, he wishes to vanquish the
demon of collective guilt, but he is unable to right any wrongs,
especially in his position as mayor of a small town in north-east
Germany that has been occupied by the Red Army. Dr Doll flees for
Berlin, where he finds escape in a morphine addiction: each dose is
a "small death". He tries to make his way in the chaos of a city
torn apart by war, accompanied by his young wife, who shares his
addiction. Fighting to save two lives, he tentatively begins to
believe in a better future. Nightmare in Berlin captures the
demoralized and desperate atmosphere of post-war Germany in a way
that has never been matched or surpassed.
"This is an heroic book, brave, fearless and honest. It is
necessary reading."-"The Sunday Times" (London)
"Genuinely tragic and beautiful . . . [Fallada's] perfectly
horrifying, horrifyingly perfect novel is the story of himself
rejected by society and returning the insult."-"New Statesman"
Written in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a
Nazi insane asylum and discovered after his death, "The Drinker"
may be Hans Fallada's most breath taking piece of craftsmanship. It
is an intense yet absorbing study of the descent into drunkenness
by an intelligent man who fears he's lost it all. Moving, often
funny, and told in a galvanizing bravura style.
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 'This remarkable work, now complete after
76 years, could well be one of the finest novels any of us will
ever read' Irish Times Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as
'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business
with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of
their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better
lives, some towards disaster. As war breaks out and Gustav's
beloved Germany is devastated by hardship and violence, he finds
everything he believes in destroyed. Can the man of iron endure, or
even change? Brutal and moving, written with Hans Fallada's gift
for capturing the small tragedies of ordinary lives, Iron Gustav is
a heartbreaking family chronicle and an unflinching portrayal of
the First World War and its aftermath.
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