Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

Hans Fallada author Michael Hofmann translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:22nd Feb '18

Should be back in stock very soon

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? cover

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.

'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.

ISBN: 9780241339244

Dimensions: 161mm x 111mm x 4mm

Weight: 44g

64 pages