Hans Fallada: Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback Condition:New Italian Neighbours is travel writing

Italian Neighbours is travel writing at its best

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Hans Fallada: Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback Condition:New Italian Neighbours is travel writingDarkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring and with it a marriage is lost in a basket of potatoes. Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and