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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada

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  Recently published for the first time in English, this fabulous book tells the story of a quiet and peaceful man who begins to drop inflammatory postcards around the city, after his son's death at the front breaks his wife's heart. Primo Levi described this book as "the greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis."

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  The Drinker by Hans Fallada

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  An extraordinary man and one of the few anti-Nazi intellectuals to remain in Germany during the war, he wrote this novel while incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Although it lacks the thrills of Alone in Berlin it is essentially a haunting study of a man who's belief that he has lost everything drives him to alcoholism. The literary equivalent of Degas' iconic painting The Absinthe Drinker.

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  Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada

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  A thriller set in Germany in the years after the loss of the First World War. Evocative in its recreation of a particular historical moment - the failing Weimar Republic which would leave Germany so vulnerable to the Nazis - and adequately gripping as we follow the lives of two lovers, Wolfgang and Petra.

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  Little Man What Now by Hans Fallada

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  One of Fallada's most fascinating achievements is his ability to recreate Weimar Republican and Nazi Germany from the perspective of an insider and yet a resistor. This novel focuses on two ordinary people, a young couple living and struggling in Berlin during the 1930s.

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  A Small Circus by Hans Fallada

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  Alone in Berlin was one of our favourite books of all time; raw, thrilling and extraordinarily powerful. Now, Michael Hoffman's brilliant translation brings A Small Circus to English readers for the first time. Written as Weimar Germany collapsed around him, Fallada's vivid and darkly funny 1931 novel traces a series of human failings in a small German town. Whilst farmers plot their revenge on greedy officials, and a mysterious travelling salesman stirs up trouble, the Mayor, 'Fatty' Gareis, continues his naive search for the easy life.