Alone In Berlin
Author(s): Hans Fallada
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo Inspector Escherich in Fallada's desperately tense and heartbreaking exploration of resistance in impossible circumstances.
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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.
Michael Hofmann is the author of several books of poems and a book of criticism, Behind the Lines, and the translator of many modern and contemporary authors. Penguin publish his translations of Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories and Irmgard Keun's Child of All Nations.
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin
- : 0.42
- : March 2010
- : 198mm X 129mm X 26mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hans Fallada
- : Paperback
- : illustrations