Once a Jailbird: A Novel - Softcover

Fallada, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611459443 ISBN 13: 9781611459449

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 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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Review:

Lit by love, the love of truth and love of humanity; it has the courage to look things in the eye, and to sketch them exactly as they were.” Hermann Hesse

Absolutely on the money, from the slang of the cons, to the refuge of its hero in the blissful hermitage of prison.” Albert Ehrenstein

About the Author:

Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born in 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? and The Drinker. Fallada died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1611459443
• ISBN 13: 9781611459449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488