EAN: 9780241391822

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS AFTER MIDNIGHT - IRMG...

Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany  a masterpiece from the author of Child of All
Nations'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a
nation turned insane' Sunday Telegraph Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in
peace  but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the
streets of Frankfurt. What's more  her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy  her
brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the
authorities at any moment  as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had
fled the Nazi regime  Irmgard Keun's masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror
of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour. Translated by Anthea Bell

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