Tales from the Underworld - Selected Shorter Fiction

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlinbr>br>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.br>br>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.>

About the author

Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.

Summary

Features short stories.

Report

A powerful chronicler of human weakness shot through with hope Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: Hans Fallada
• Assisted by: Michael Hofmann (Editor), Jenny Williams (Foreword), Michael Hofmann (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2014
• EAN: 9780141392851
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139285-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics Paperbacks; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Classic fiction: general and literary