Tales from the Underworld
Selected Shorter Fiction
Hans Fallada author Michael Hofmann translator Michael Hofmann editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:6th Feb '14
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
Features short stories.
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.
A powerful chronicler of human weakness shot through with hope * Times Literary Supplement *
ISBN: 9780141392851
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm
Weight: 236g
320 pages