Hans Fallada

Broschiertes Buch

A Small Circus

Beschreibung

It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the "Pomeranian Chronicle" - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials.

Autor

Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born on 21 July 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?, The Drinker and the bestselling Alone in Berlin. Fallada died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in Berlin. Michael Hofmann is the author of several books of poems and a book of criticism, Behind the Lines, and the translator of many modern and contemporary authors.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Originaltitel: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780141196565
• ISBN-10: 0141196564
• Artikelnr.: 36419361

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