Alone in Berlin (Slipcase Edition) - Hardcover

Hans Fallada

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141198559 ISBN 13: 9780141198552

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

A slipcased hardback edition of Hans Fallada's bestselling novel, translated by Michael Hofmann, with the original first Penguin edition artwork.

Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks ...

About this title

Review:

Terrific ... a fast-moving, important and astutely deadpan thriller (Irish Times)

One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever (Alan Furst)

Book Description:

Berlin, 1940. The city is paralysed by fear. But one man refuses to be scared.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141198559
• ISBN 13: 9780141198552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608