Every man dies alone
Fallada, Hans, 1893-1947.
Every man dies alone / Hans Fallada ; translated by Michael Hofmann ; afterword by Geoff Wilkes - Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House Pub. , c2009. - 543 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
First published in German as Jeder stirbt für sich allein. Berlin : Aufbau, 1947. Map on lining papers.
This never-before-translated masterpieceby a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in. In the end, it's more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order it's a deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what's right, and for each other.
9781933633633
2008027489
Holocaust, Jewish, 1939-1945----Fiction
Nazi----Fiction
Anti-Nazi movement---Germany----Fiction
Germany---History---1933-1945----Fiction
Berlin (Germany)----Fiction
Historical fiction
PT2607.I6 / J413 2009
FIC FAL
Every man dies alone / Hans Fallada ; translated by Michael Hofmann ; afterword by Geoff Wilkes - Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House Pub. , c2009. - 543 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
First published in German as Jeder stirbt für sich allein. Berlin : Aufbau, 1947. Map on lining papers.
This never-before-translated masterpieceby a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in. In the end, it's more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order it's a deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what's right, and for each other.
9781933633633
2008027489
Holocaust, Jewish, 1939-1945----Fiction
Nazi----Fiction
Anti-Nazi movement---Germany----Fiction
Germany---History---1933-1945----Fiction
Berlin (Germany)----Fiction
Historical fiction
PT2607.I6 / J413 2009
FIC FAL
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