Hans Fallada: Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback Condition:New courageous' - Observer

courageous' - Observer

If we fail

Fiery phrases spit and crackle

The metaphysics of morality

In her memoir

Hans Fallada: Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback Condition:New courageous' - ObserverDarkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring and with it a marriage is lost in a basket of potatoes. Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and