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The Artificial Silk Girl

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  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 160 sider

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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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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal160
  • Udgivelsesdato28-03-2019
  • ISBN139780241382967
  • Forlag Penguin Classics
  • FormatPaperback
  • OriginalsprogTysk
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt125 g
  • Dybde0,9 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    12,9 cm
    19,7 cm

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