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Depicting a young woman''s life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations

''I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane'' Sunday Telegraph

Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that''s difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What''s more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard Keun''s masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour.

Translated by Anthea Bell



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I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane * Sunday Telegraph *
Acerbically observed by this youthful, clever, undeceived eye....Crystalline yet acid * Jewish Chronicle *
Explosive ... Reading After Midnight today [still] feels dangerous. I kept turning to the copyright page, unable to believe that such a sexually and politically frank book could have been published in 1937 Germany ... After Midnight haunts far beyond its final page * NPR *
Brief, important and haunting -- Penelope Lively

After Midnight

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 23 April 2020
      ISBN-13 9780241391822
      978-0241391822
      ISBN-10 0241391822
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Depicting a young woman''s life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations

      ''I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane'' Sunday Telegraph

      Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that''s difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What''s more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard Keun''s masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour.

      Translated by Anthea Bell



      Trade Review
      I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane * Sunday Telegraph *
      Acerbically observed by this youthful, clever, undeceived eye....Crystalline yet acid * Jewish Chronicle *
      Explosive ... Reading After Midnight today [still] feels dangerous. I kept turning to the copyright page, unable to believe that such a sexually and politically frank book could have been published in 1937 Germany ... After Midnight haunts far beyond its final page * NPR *
      Brief, important and haunting -- Penelope Lively

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