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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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- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/03/2019
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- ISBN:9780241382974
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/03/2019
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- ISBN:9780241382974
