by Erich Kästner · Droemer Knaur Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783855359585
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«Drei Männer im Schnee» is the humorous novel by Erich Kästner, published by Droemer Knaur Verlag in hardcover (219 pages, in German).
A tycoon who owns factories, banks and department stores wins a contest run by his own company: ten days of winter holidays in a luxury hotel. To his family's dismay, he travels incognito as a poor wretch named Schulze and unleashes a chain of misunderstandings. The narrative is a satire of appearances and social classes.
The full title is «Drei Männer im Schnee oder das lebenslängliche Kind»; the work was originally published in 1934.
For readers interested in classic German fiction and Erich Kästner's satirical humor.
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in eight separate years.
