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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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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
Description and Table of Contents
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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