by Hans Fallada · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141189383
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«Alone in Berlin» is the historical novel by Hans Fallada, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (588 pages, in English).
In 1940 Berlin, the Quangels, Otto and Anna, begin a campaign of silent resistance after the death of their son at the front: they distribute anonymous postcards against Hitler. Gestapo inspector Escherich pursues them, and criminals Kluge and Borkhausen complicate matters with betrayals and blackmail.
Original title: «Jeder stirbt für sich allein» (1947). The Penguin Modern Classics edition translated by Michael Hofmann includes an epilogue by Geoff Wilkes and facsimiles of the Gestapo file.
For readers of historical fiction and thrillers about the Second World War and civil resistance in Nazi Berlin.
Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947). His works belong predominantly to the New Objectivity literary style, a style associated with an emotionless reportage approach, with precision of detail, and a veneration for 'the fact'. Fallada's pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in Grimms' Fairy Tales: The titular protagonist of Hans in Luck, and Fallada the magical talking horse in The Goose Girl.
