Alone in Berlin - Crime and Espionage

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Berlin, 1940. The city is paralysed by fear. But one man refuses to be scared. Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when he discovers his only son has been killed fighting at the front he's shocked into an extraordinary act of resistance, and starts to drop anonymous postcards attacking Hitler across the city. If caught, he will be executed. Soon this silent campaign comes to the attention of ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich, and a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins. Whoever loses, pays with their life. Zusammenfassung Berlin, 1940. The city is paralysed by fear. But one man refuses to be scared. Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi rule. But when he discovers his only son has been killed fighting at the front he's shocked into an extraordinary act of resistance, and starts to drop anonymous postcards attacking Hitler across the city. If caught, he will be executed. Soon this silent campaign comes to the attention of ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich, and a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins. Whoever loses, pays with their life.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Fallada
• Assisted by: Michael Hofmann (Translation), Hofmann Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 13.07.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9780241639207
• ISBN: 978-0-241-63920-7
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Crime; Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage; Penguin Modern Classics - Crime & Espionage
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary