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Artificial Silk Girl

Name: Artificial Silk Girl
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 20477649
Price: 8.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Irmgard Keun
ISBN: 9780241382967

Irmgard Keun

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English

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Libristo code: 20477649

Publishers Penguin Books, March 2019

A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of A... Full description

Libristo code: 20477649

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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.