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Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin

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.

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.



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Tales from the Underworld Selected Shorter

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 06/02/2014
    ISBN13: 9780141392851, 978-0141392851
    ISBN10: 0141392851
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin

    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.

    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.



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

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