num_pages: 267
description: A quartet of novellas including "Accountant", "Batorsag and Szerelem", "City of Broken Dreams" and "The Palace Thief". In the title story a teacher spots the seeds of corruption in a wayward student and watches with fascinated horror as the boy, and then the man flourishes.
language: German
title: Die Stadt der gebrochenen Herzen
titlecomplete: Die Stadt der gebrochenen Herzen
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Education, Fiction, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Short Story Collection, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2090
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Hoffmann & Campe