Once a jailbird - Hans Fallada

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Title
Once a jailbird
Author
Hans Fallada
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20120607

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 and deceit, and with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making...

Hans Fallada's dark and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our actions always catch up with us.

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Hans Fallada was born in Germany in 1893. His life was checkered by a failed adolescent suicide pact in which his friend died, addiction to morphine and alcohol, periods of incarceration in prison and mental hospitals, and brushes with the Nazi regime. His most famous novels include Little Man, What Now?, The Drinker and Alone in Berlin, written in 24 days. Fallada died weeks before its publication, in February 1947 in Berlin.

Fallada is a unique novelist, a writer of great sweetness and charm whom historical circumstances forced to take an interest in violent turmoil
Independent - Philip Hensher

Type
BOOK
Edition
Revised edition
Keyword Index
Ex-convicts - Germany - Hamburg - Fiction.|Germany - Social conditions - 1918-1933 - Fiction.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
487

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