Once a Jailbird

Informationen zum Autor Hans Fallada Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Fallada
• Assisted by: Eric Sutton (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2012
• EAN: 9780141196541
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119654-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Hamburg, FICTION / Crime, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), c 1930 to c 1939, Classic crime and mystery fiction