This tale is a sweetly naÏve, charming description of a couple's relationship and survival through economic hard times in Berlin 1932. It is a response to social stories of the day, of bleak futures on the horizon as poverty, conflict and social disorder dominated everyday life. Fallada draws on his...
Hope to write more of a review later, but Fallada's now definitely one of my favorites. This book may as well be about my generation.
Brilliant characterisation that made it painful to carry on reading at times, but all too believable.
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