Tales from the underworld : selected shorter fiction
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Tales from the underworld : selected shorter fiction
（Penguin modern classics, . Fiction）
Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2014
- : [pbk.]
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Contents of Works
- The wedding ring
- Passion
- Tales from the underworld
- Farmers in the revenue office
- Kubsch and his allotment
- Mother lives on her pension
- A burglar's dreams are of his cell
- Why do you wear a cheap watch?
- On the lam
- I get a job
- A bad night
- The open door
- War monument or urinal?
- Happiness and woe
- With measuring tape and watering can
- The lucky beggar
- Just like thirty years ago
- Fifty marks and a merry Christmas
- The good pasture on the right
- The missing greenfinches
- Food and grub
- The good meadow
- Calendar stories
- The returning soldier
- The old flame
- Short treatise on the joys of morphinism
- Three years of life
- Svenda, a dream fragment ; or, My worries
- Looking for my father
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Description
Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin
In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes.
Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.
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