Once a Jailbird: A Novel - Couverture souple

Fallada, Hans

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611459443 ISBN 13 : 9781611459449

Editeur : Arcade, 2014

Synopsis

For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco, and dreaming of the day of his release.

Then he gets out.

As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation, deceit, and, with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making . . .

Hans Fallada, whose famous works include Alone in Berlin and The Drinker, brilliantly crafts this dark and moving novel, originally written in 1934, as he describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our actions always catch up with us. His work is unparalleled, and Once a Jailbird is a fantastic title to add to Fallada’s recently translated works.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hans Fallada was born Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen in 1893 in Greifswald, Germany. He spent much of his life in prison or in psychiatric care, yet produced some of the most significant German novels of the twentieth century, including Little Man, What Now?, The Drinker, and Alone in Berlin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcade
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611459443
• ISBN 13: 9781611459449
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 488
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible