Nach Mitternacht (German Texts)

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Irmgard Keun, Keun: Nach Mitternacht (German Texts) (Hardcover, 1994, St. Martin's Press)

Hardcover, 224 pages

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Published Jan. 6, 1994 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7190-3597-5
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OCLC Number:
230943479

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"Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped--even in the lady's bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti's Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girls' path--it is the Furher in a motorcade procession, and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler's raised "empty hand." Then the parade is over, and in the long hours after midnight Sanna and Gerti will face betrayal, death, and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era devoid of innocence or romance. In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite, and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions, and hysteria of pre-war Germany like no other novel. Yet even as it exposes human folly, the book exudes …

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  • German
  • Modern fiction
  • Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -

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