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Iron Gustav: A Berlin Family Chronicle
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A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country – from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin’This remarkable work, now complete after 76 years, could well be one of the finest novels any of us will ever read’ Irish TimesGustav Hackendahl’s will is law. Known as ‘Iron Gustav’, he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control – some to better lives, some towards disaster. As war breaks out and Gustav’s beloved Germany is devastated by hardship and violence, he finds everything he believes in destroyed. Can the man of iron endure, or even change?Brutal and moving, written with Hans Fallada’s gift for capturing the small tragedies of ordinary lives, Iron Gustav is a heartbreaking family chronicle and an unflinching portrayal of the First World War and its aftermath.
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| Weight | 0.415 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 608 |
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| Year Published | 2014-7-3 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 014119653X |
| About The Author | 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 Berlin. |
Every so often you come across a book so finely wrought that you have no doubt about its status as a literary classic. Iron Gustav is one … The writing is visual, vivid and visceral, the irony delicate, and even when it is cynical the novel doesn't sneer … Fallada's descriptions of material degradation and squalor equal those of Dickens and Dostoyevsky. He has the gift for complex narrative of Thomas Mann combined with the page-turning powers of great thriller writers such as Raymond Chandler, and the structural control of a great painter or composer … This [Penguin Modern Classics edition] is the first authentic version of not just a classic, but a masterpiece of world literature |
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| Other text | A powerful portrayal of the devastating effects of the first world war on a family and a country … The project went through a tortuous journey, with rewrites ordered by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief, which have been taken out of the new edition … this new edition is as close as possible to Fallada's original |
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