Wolf Among Wolves
Language: English
Published by Melville House, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2010
- First Edition
- Softcover
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- Title
- Wolf Among Wolves
- Author
- Fallada, Hans : Translated by Phillip Owens : Restored and with additional translations by Thorsten Carstensen and Nicholas Jacobs
- Publisher
- Melville House, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket as issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1933633921
- ISBN 13
- 9781933633923
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany’s catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses everything in Berlin, then flees the chaotic city, where worthless money and shortages are causing pandemonium. Once in the countryside, however, he finds a defeated German army that has decamped there to foment insurrection. Somehow, amidst it all, he finds romance—it’s The Year of Living Dangerously in a European setting.
Fast-moving as a thriller, fascinating as the best historical fiction, and with lyrical prose that packs a powerful emotional punch, Wolf Among Wolves is the equal of Fallada’s acclaimed Every Man Dies Alone as an immensely absorbing work of important literature.
“An unmissably brilliant portrait of Berlin before the Nazis.” —The Times of London
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About the Author
Prior to World War II, the novels of German writer Hans Fallada (born Rudolf Ditzen) were international bestsellers. But when Jewish producers in Hollywood made his 1932 novel, Little Man, What Now? into a major motion picture, the rising Nazi Party took notice of him. After he refused to join the Party and was denounced by neighbors for alleged anti-Nazi sympathies, Fallada, unlike many other prominent artists, decided not to leave Germany. During WWII he suffered an alcohol-and-drug-fueled nervous breakdown and landed in a Nazi insane asylum, where he nonetheless managed to write—in code—the brilliant subversive novel, The Drinker. After the war, Fallada went on to write Every Man Dies Alone, based on an actual Gestapo file, but he died in 1947 of a heart attack—brought on by drug abuse just before it was published.
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Frances Wetherell
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