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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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The artificial silk girl, Irmgard Keun
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2019
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
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- Tytuł
- The artificial silk girl
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Irmgard Keun
- Wydawca
- Penguin Books
- Rok wydania
- 2019
- Oprawa
- miękka
- Liczba stron
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0241382963
- ISBN13
- 9780241382967
- Seria
- Tagi
- Miłość, Literatura niemiecka, Niemcy, XX wiek, Społeczeństwo, Życie, Berlin, Dziewczyny, Pragnienie, Mężczyźni, Republika Weimarska
- Ocena
- 3,45 z 5
- Opis
- 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.