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A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
$50.00 NZD
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 Small Circus by Hans Fallada
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 "Pomeranian ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Iron Gustav - A Berlin Family Chronicle by Hans Fallada
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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. 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser. He who doesn't obey is sh ...Show more
Lilly and Her Slave by Hans Fallada
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Previously unpublished stories by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin.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
$30.00 NZD
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.
Once a Jailbird by Hans Fallada
$30.00 NZD
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
Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism by Hans Fallada
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me ...Show more
The Drinker by Hans Fallada
$30.00 NZD
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
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? (Mini Modern Classics) by Hans Fallada
$2.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
It was what we call in the trade a potato . . . 'Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.
Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada
$35.00 NZD
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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