Alone in Berlin (Penguin Classics)

This beautiful softcover edition is in very good condition. The pages are tight and unmarked, The book is clean with light creasing around the edges. Alone in Berlin (also published as Every Man Dies Alone) is a 1947 novel by Hans Fallada, based on the true story of a working-class Berlin couple who waged a quiet campaign of resistance against the Nazi regime. Fallada completed the novel shortly before his death in February 1947, and it remains one of the most celebrated works of historical fiction about the Second World War. This edition is translated by Michael Hofmann, winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize and one of the most decorated German-to-English literary translators working today, whose credits include major works by Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, and Herta Müller.