I finally got my hands on Hans Fallada’s seminal novel Alone in Berlin (Penguin UK ISBN: 9781846140822) [note: published in the US as Every Man Dies Alone (Melville House ISBN: 9781933633633)], but sadly I don’t see it staying in my hands for long, because this is a library loan, and with the reading pile I’ve got sitting waiting to get through I don’t see me getting to this within the next three weeks.
Still it’s nice to have a bit of ‘hands on’ time with Fallada’s novel; a novel whose story line centers on a cat and mouse game between the Gestapo and a Berlin couple in the wartime German capital. A quick flick through tells me that Alone in Berlin is definitely one I’m coming back to in the future.
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