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Every Man Dies Alone

By Hans Fallada

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| Others | 9781933633633

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This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw
his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party—is based on a true ...

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Every Man Dies Alone

A mysterious person is dropping mysterious postcards across the city. No case for the police, surely. But the city happens to be Berlin, the date 1940. This is no careless postman or serial litterer at work. The city’s custodians are the country’s ru ... (read full critics)

raintaxi published on Fri, 8 Apr 2011

Postcards From the Edge

A signal literary event of 2009 has occurred, but if publishers had been more vigilant, it could have been a signal literary event in any of the last 60 years. This event is the belated appearance in English of the novel “Every Man Dies Alone,” the s ... (read full critics)

nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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This is 'quite good' in an unusual way - it can be read, in fact as quite a depressing book - Berlin during WWII and the psychology of Germany/Berlin at this time. The short biography of 'Hans Fallada', the author, is an important aspect of the reading. I would not be ready to read another by him ... (continue)

This is 'quite good' in an unusual way - it can be read, in fact as quite a depressing book - Berlin during WWII and the psychology of Germany/Berlin at this time. The short biography of 'Hans Fallada', the author, is an important aspect of the reading. I would not be ready to read another by him for awhile but this was truly thought-provoking as literature and fascinating as mystery and novel.

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