The cow, the shoe, then you
Philip Oltermann: Hans Fallada, 8 March 2012
More Lives than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada
by Jenny Williams.
Penguin, 320 pp., £12.99, February 2012,978 0 241 95267 2 Show More
by Jenny Williams.
Penguin, 320 pp., £12.99, February 2012,
A Small Circus
by Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofmann.
Penguin, 577 pp., £20, February 2012,978 0 14 119655 8 Show More
by Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofmann.
Penguin, 577 pp., £20, February 2012,
“... alcohol and morphine. But the persona he created still drives sales sixty years after his death. Michael Hofmann’s 2009 translation of his last novel, Alone in Berlin, sold around 350,000 copies in the UK alone, 100,000 of them in the first three months after publication. Much of Alone in Berlin’s success has to do with the way the story is told. Otto ... ”