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

Tales from the Underworld cover

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