Alone in Berlin

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 Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin begins in Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks... Zusammenfassung Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel.

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One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever. Alan Furst

Product details

• Authors: Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann
• Assisted by: Michael Hofmann (Translation), Hofmann Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.01.2010
• EAN: 9780141189383
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118938-3
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Berlin, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Thrillers / Political, Fiction in translation, Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), FICTION / World Literature / Germany / 20th Century, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary