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Little man, what now?

ID 340224
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Description From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany<br></br><br></br>'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks'<br></br><br></br>A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lämmchen and 'Boy' live in Berlin in 1932, and everything is changing. As they desperately try to make ends meet amid bullying bosses, unpaid bills, monstrous mothers-in-law and Nazi streetfighters, will love be enough?<br></br><br></br>The novel that made Hans Fallada's name as a writer, Little Man, What Now? tells the story of one of European literature's most touching couples and is filled with an extraordinary mixture of comedy and desperation. It was published just before Hitler came to power and remains a haunting portrayal of innocents whose world is about to be swept away forever. This brilliant new translation by Michael Hofmann brings to life an entire era of austerity and turmoil in Weimar Germany.
Bestseller 60
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300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
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Publisher Penguin UK
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Language eng
Page count 352
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Publication date first 2019-01-31
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  • ISBN: 9780241300879 (BC)

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