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Once a Jailbird
Hans Fallada
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Description for Once a Jailbird
Paperback. For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release.
Then he gets out.
As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making...
Hans Fallada's dark and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal underworld ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Weight
339 g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141196541
SKU
V9780141196541
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1893 in Greifswald as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. His most famous works include the novels Little Man, What Now? and The Drinker. Fallada died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in ... Read more
Reviews for Once a Jailbird
Fallada is a unique novelist, a writer of great sweetness and charm whom historical circumstances forced to take an interest in violent turmoil
Philip Hensher
Independent
Philip Hensher
Independent