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''It was what we call in the trade a potato...''

Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch Penguin Modern

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A Paperback / softback by Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 22/02/2018
    ISBN13: 9780241339244, 978-0241339244
    ISBN10: 0241339243
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    Anthologies & Short Stories Books by Hans Fallada

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''It was what we call in the trade a potato...''

    Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.

    Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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