Alone in Berlin (Penguin Modern Classics)

Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1893 in Greifswald, north-east Germany, as Rudolph Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen-name from a Brothers Grimm fairytale. His most famous works include the novels Little Man, What Now? and The Drinker. Fallada died in 1947 in Berlin.

Michael Hofmann is the author of several books of poems and of a book of criticism, Behind the Lines, and the translator of many modern and contemporary authors, including Joseph Roth. Penguin publish his translations of Kafka’s Amerika and Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel and Irmgard Keun’s Child of All Nations.