- Anti-Nazi movement, Literature, Fiction, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Based on a true story, this never-before-translated masterpiece was overlooked for years after its author--a bestselling writer before World War II who found himself in a Nazi insane asylum at war's end--died just before it was published.In a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis, it tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Hans Fallada
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 515
- Publisher
- Bertelsmann Reinhard Mohn, Moewig, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783811830059
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 6 have read it and 29 want to.
“The postwoman Eva Kluge slowly climbs the steps of 55 Jablonski Strasse.”
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
A Long Way Gone 200788% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
A million nightingales 200684% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
First They Killed My Father 200083% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Charlotte Gray 167382% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Antes que anochezca 199282% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
The Jungle 179182% alikeBoth earnest, grave, classical in form.
Last Call 202182% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Huasipungo 193481% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Film · Both earnest, grave, classical in form.
In the Name of the Father 199384% alikeFilm · Both earnest, grave, classical in form.