Hans Fallada

Iron Gustav

A Berlin Family Chronicle

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better lives, some towards disaster.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Originaltitel: Der eiserne Gustav
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780141196534
• ISBN-10: 014119653X
• Artikelnr.: 40567752

Autorenporträt

Hans Fallada

Rezensionen

Every so often you come across a book so finely wrought that you have no doubt about its status as a literary classic. Iron Gustav is one ... The writing is visual, vivid and visceral, the irony delicate, and even when it is cynical the novel doesn't sneer ... Fallada's descriptions of material degradation and squalor equal those of Dickens and Dostoyevsky. He has the gift for complex narrative of Thomas Mann combined with the page-turning powers of great thriller writers such as Raymond Chandler, and the structural control of a great painter or composer ... This [Penguin Modern Classics edition] is the first authentic version of not just a classic, but a masterpiece of world literature Paul Levy Wall Street Journal