by Hans Fallada · Penguin Books, Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241277027
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«Alone in Berlin» is the historical novel by Hans Fallada, published by Penguin Books in paperback (592 pages, in English).
Berlin, 1940. After the death of their son in France, the humble Otto and Anna Quangel begin a silent campaign of disobedience against the Nazi regime. Gestapo inspector Escherich pursues them in a cat-and-mouse duel, in a story about resistance in extreme circumstances.
Original title: «Jeder stirbt für sich allein» (1947). This 2017 edition is part of Penguin Modern Classics.
For readers of historical fiction, classics and Second World War fiction, with a look at moral resistance against Nazism.
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.
