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Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Hans Fallada
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Edited by Michael Hofmann
Foreword by Jenny Williams
SeriesPenguin Modern Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780141392851
ClassificationsDewey:833.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 6 February 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1893 in Greifswald as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. His most famous works include the novels Little Man, What Now? and The Drinker. Fallada died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in Berlin.

Reviews

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