An edition of Nach Mitternacht (1937)

After midnight

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An edition of Nach Mitternacht (1937)

After midnight

  • 3.3 (3 ratings) ·
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  • 1 Currently reading
  • 4 Have read

"Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped--even in the lady's bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti's Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girls' path--it is the Furher in a motorcade procession, and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler's raised "empty hand." Then the parade is over, and in the long hours after midnight Sanna and Gerti will face betrayal, death, and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era devoid of innocence or romance. In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite, and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions, and hysteria of pre-war Germany like no other novel. Yet even as it exposes human folly, the book exudes a hopeful humanism. It is full of humor and light, even as it describes the first moments of a nightmare. After Midnight is a masterpiece that deserves to be read and remembered anew"--

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
152

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Previews available in: German English French

Edition Availability
Cover of: Nach Mitternacht
Nach Mitternacht: Roman
1989, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Paperback in German - 1. Auflage
Cover of: After midnight
After midnight
1985, V. Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
Cover of: Après minuit
Après minuit
1982, Éditions J'ai lu, J'AI LU
in French

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Edition Notes

Translation of: Nach Mitternacht.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
833/.912
Library of Congress
PT2621.E92 N313 1985, PT2621.E92

Contributors

Translator
Anthea Bell

The Physical Object

Pagination
152 p. ;
Number of pages
152

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2462370M
Internet Archive
aftermidnight0000keun
ISBN 10
0575036567
LCCN
87169102
OCLC/WorldCat
18560267
Library Thing
967073
Goodreads
1147076

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