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A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy off ...Show more
A Stranger in My Own Country: The 1944 Prison Diary by Hans Fallada
$44.95 AUD
Category: Biography
'I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.' Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of 'inward emigration'. Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discover ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
Drinker by Hans Fallada
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"This is an heroic book, brave, fearless and honest. It is necessary reading."-"The Sunday Times" (London)"Genuinely tragic and beautiful . . . [Fallada's] perfectly horrifying, horrifyingly perfect novel is the story of himself rejected by society and returning the insult."-"New Statesman"Written in an ...Show more
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This never-before-translated masterpiece--by 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 ...Show more
Lilly and Her Slave by Hans Fallada
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Previously unpublished stories by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. In September 1925 Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police. Not yet a bestselling author, Fallada had repeatedly embezzled funds to finance his alcohol and morphine addictions. Desperate to escape his demons, he sought a pr ...Show more
Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada
$34.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the book that led to Hans Fallada's downfall with the Nazis. The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation and was made into an acclaimed Hollywood movie produced by Jews, leading Hitler to ban Fallada's work from being translated. Nonet ...Show more
Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fallada Collection
Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells the simple story of a young couple trying to eke out a decent life amidst an economic crisis that's transforming their country into a place of anger and despair.
Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fallada Collection
Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler's war. Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and 'moderate pessimist', lives in constant fear. By night, he i ...Show more
Once a Jailbird by Hans Fallada
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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. Gra ...Show more
The Drinker by Hans Fallada
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fallada Collection
Written by Hans Fallada in a notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale -- often fierce, often poignant, often even extremely funny -- of a small businessman losing control as he fights valiantly to blot out an increasingly oppressive societ ...Show more
Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fallada Collection
This sweeping saga of love in dangerous times -- the 1923 collapse of the German economy, when food and money shortages led to rioting in the streets and unemployed soldiers marauding through the countryside--is deemed by many to be Hans Fallada's greatest work.
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