The Artificial Silk Girl (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Keun, Irmgard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241382963 ISBN 13: 9780241382967

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2019

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Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edition. Fast delivery through DHL/FedEx express.

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Críticas:

Just now I want to tell everyone about Irmgard Keun ... A great writer (Ali Smith)

Keun has few rivals - I can think of none - as a chronicler of the ambience or the consequences of the rise of Nazism (Michael Hofmann)

The Artificial Silk Girl follows Doris into the underbelly of a city that had once seemed all glamour and promise ... Kathie von Ankum's English translation will bring this masterwork to the foreground once more, giving a new generation the chance to discover Keun for themselves (Elle)

Damned by the Nazis, hailed by the feminists ... a truly charming window into a young woman's life in the early 1930s (Los Angeles Times)

A young girl navigates interwar German society and the expectations - or lack thereof - placed upon women, in this poignant, melancholy novel ... This heartbreaking story of dashed hopes is one that still has the power to affect and inspire (Publishers Weekly)

Reseña del editor:

A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations

Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.

The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241382963
• ISBN 13: 9780241382967
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160