The Artificial Silk Girl / Книга на Английском; Penguin, 2019
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- Издатель: Penguin
- ISBN: 9780241382967
EAN: 9780241382967
- Книги: Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке
- ID: 12042679
Описание
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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Автор(ы) | Keun Irmgard |
Издатель | Penguin |
Кол-во страниц | 156 |
Год издания | 2019 |
Серия | Penguin Modern Classics |
ISBN | 9780241382967 |
Обложка | мягкая обложка |
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