Its Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels[...]

This is a powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. "This remarkable work, now complete after 76 years, could well be one of the finest novels any of us will ever read". (Irish Times). Gu[...]

A "Small Circus" is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of "Alone in Berlin"). 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 "Pomera[...]

These are darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin. In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate le[...]

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 hi[...]

"To read "Every Man Dies Alone," Fallada's testament to the darkest years of the 20th century, is to be accompanied by a wise, somber ghost who grips your shoulder and whispers in your ear: 'This is how it was. This is what happened.'"
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"I very much enjoyed t[...]

Mit epischer Wucht versucht Fallada in diesem zeitgeschichtlichen Roman, der ihn berühmt machte, vom Kampf des Landvolkes gegen die verhaßte Bürokratie in einer norddeutschen Kleinstadt, der sich zum Kampf aller gegen alle erweitert. Intrige, Geldgier, Ehrgeiz und politische Ränke beherrschen da[...]

Ein sechzehnjähriger Waisenjunge kommt nach Berlin und will es hier zu Reichtum und Macht bringen. Kauzige und kernige, liebenswerte und fragwürdige Menschen kreuzen seinen Weg nach oben - und immer wieder sind es die Frauen, die zu ihm halten, und denen er seinen Erfolg verdankt. Ein packender Ro[...]