A small circus
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hans Fallada ;  translated by Michael Hofmann
Contributors: Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator
Edition: First Arcade Publishing edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 577
ISBN-13: 9781628724325
Subjects: Fiction; City and town life; History
Work titles: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben
Description: It is the summer of 1929, and in a small German town, a storm is brewing. Tredup, a shabby reporter working for the Pomeranian Chronicle, leads a precarious existence... until he takes some photographs that offer him a chance to make a fortune. While Tredup contemplates his next move, the town is buzzing. Farmers are plotting their revenge against greedy officials, a mysterious traveling salesman is stirring up trouble, and all the while, the Nazi party grows stronger as the Communists fight them in the street. As the town slowly slips into chaos, Mayor "Fatty" Gareis does everything in his power to seek the easy life. As tensions mount between workers and bosses, town and country, and Left and Right, alliances are broken, bribes are taken, and plots are hatched, until the tension spills over into violence. From the brilliant mind of one of Germany's most celebrated writers, A Small Circus is a genuine and frightening tale of small-town Germany during a time of unrest. It belongs in the collection of every reader who has enjoyed his break-out classics.
Notes: Translation from the German of: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben.