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For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making... Hans Fallada's dark and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our actions always catch up with us.
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Once a jailbird, Hans Fallada
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Once a jailbird
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hans Fallada
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN10
- 0141196548
- ISBN13
- 9780141196541
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Mystery Novels, German Literature, Germany, Society, Hamburg, Fate, Prison, Court, Court Trials, Prejudices, Weimar Republic
- Original title
- Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frißt
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making... Hans Fallada's dark and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our actions always catch up with us.