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A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour. The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.
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The artificial silk girl, Irmgard Keun
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2019
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- Titel
- The artificial silk girl
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Irmgard Keun
- Uitgever
- Penguin Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2019
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0241382963
- ISBN13
- 9780241382967
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Historische romans, Liefde, Klassiekers, Duitse literatuur, Duitsland, 20e Eeuw, Samenleving, Leven, Berlijn, Meisjes, Verlangen, Mannen, Weimarrepubliek
- Beoordeling
- 3,45 van 5
- Aantekening
- A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour. The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.