Wolf Among Wolves - Softcover

Fallada, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911545019 ISBN 13: 9781911545019

Publisher: Melville House UK, 2017

Synopsis

Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany's catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows young veteran Wolf, a handsome, amiable and shiftless young man, addicted to the thrill of gambling. Recklessly losing everything in Berlin, a city in chaos, he flees to the countryside. It is here he find his redemption, finding gainful employment and healing himself, away from the temptations of the city.

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About the Author

Prior to WWII, the novels of German writer Hans Fallada (born Rudolf Ditzen) were international bestsellers. But when Jewish producers in Hollywood made his 1932 novel, "Little Man, What Now? "into a major motion picture, the rising Nazis began to take note of him. His struggles increased after he refused to join the Party and was denounced by neighbors for "anti-Nazi" sympathies. Unlike many other prominent artists, however, Fallada decided not to flee Germany. By the end of World War II he'd suffered an alcohol-fueled nervous breakdown and was in a Nazi insane asylum, where he nonetheless managed to write--in code--the brilliant subversive novel, "The Drinker." After the war, Fallada went on to write "Every Man Dies Alone," based on an actual Gestapo file, but he died in 1947 of a morphine overdose, just before it was published.

Edition details

• Publisher: Melville House UK
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911545019
• ISBN 13: 9781911545019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 816