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and already announced at Penguin

Tales from the Underworld

Selected Shorter Fiction, by Hans Fallada

416 pages of searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, in new translation by Michael Hofmann

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.

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, and money.

 

 

Publication Date: February, 2014 - ISBN: 9780141392851