Wolf Among Wolves - Softcover

Hans Fallada

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933633921 ISBN 13: 9781933633923

Publisher: Melville House Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

A sprawling saga of the collapse of a culture, its economy and government and the common man's struggle to survive it all. Set in Weimer Germany soon after their loss of World War I, a young gambler looses it all in Berlin and flees the city for countryside. However, he is greeted a defeated German army that has camped there to forment insurrection. Somehow, amidst all the chaos, he finds romance. This fast-moving thriller is also a fascinating historical fiction with lyrical prose that packs a powerful emotional punch.

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About the Author

Prior to World War II, 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 Nazi Party took notice of him. After he refused to join the Party and was denounced by neighbors for alleged anti-Nazi sympathies, Fallada, unlike many other prominent artists, decided not to leave Germany. During WWII he suffered an alcohol-and-drug-fueled nervous breakdown and landed 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 heart attack--brought on by drug abuse just before it was published.

Edition details

• Publisher: Melville House Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933633921
• ISBN 13: 9781933633923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736