Modern Classics Tales From the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction

by Hans Fallada

Michael Hofmann (Editor) and Jenny Williams (Foreword)

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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.
  • ISBN10 0141392851
  • ISBN13 9780141392851
  • Publish Date 1 April 2014 (first published 6 February 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin UK
  • Imprint Penguin Classic