A Small Circus

Informationen zum Autor Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born on 21 July 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? , The Drinker and the bestselling Alone in Berlin . 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. Klappentext Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born on 21 July 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? , The Drinker and the bestselling Alone in Berlin . 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. Zusammenfassung It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the "Pomeranian Chronicle" - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Fallada, Fallada Hans
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9780141196565
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119656-5
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 199 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Germany, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Politics, 1918–1933 (period of the Weimar Republic)