The Artificial Silk Girl

A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations br>br>Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.br>br>The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun''s best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.>

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Product details

• Authors: Irmgard Keun, Keun Irmgard
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780241382967
• ISBN: 978-0-241-38296-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction: general and literary