An icy wind whistled through the station; every pane of glass seemed to be broken, so there was nowhere to shelter from the cold and the wind. The last months of the war are described with masterly skill, as well as the subsequent capitulation, the arrival of the Russian troops, the way in which the middle class, the “bourgeoisie” must adapt to this new environment, and the moral decline of the population.” —Zwiebelfisch, “It’s easy to see why Graham Greene—no small master of moral thrillers himself—so admired this writer.” PICK OF THE WEEK —Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald, “Nightmare in Berlin is the symbol for everything that happened after the end of the war.” —Der Tagesspiegel, “Nightmare in Berlin represents a crucial moment in Fallada’s realisation that it is not the ruins, but human lives that count.” —Norddeutsche Zeitung, “A strikingly honest book, a piece of human history.” —Frankfurter Neue Presse, “One reads the story of Dr Doll, who is crushed by a nightmarish existence in a city of ruins, with intense sympathy.” —Freiheit Düsseldorf, “The book that cleared the way for Alone in Berlin.” —Jenny Williams, author of More Lives Than One: a biography of Hans Fallada, “A vital, painful examination of a devastated, morally bereft city.” —The Listener, “I was very struck by the immediacy of Fallada’s writing in this book—it feels fresh, modern and direct…[his] ability to find glimpses of light amidst the darkness makes him a striking chronicler of his time.” —Mariella Frostrup, BBC Radio 4 ‘Open Book’, “[Fallada’s] account of the agonized internal conflict of a writer, torn between the self-protective instinct to detach himself from the horror that surrounds him and the imperative to bear witness to it, has the appalled urgency of confession with little hope of absolution.

Immediately after the war he wrote his last two novels, The Nightmare and Alone in Berlin, but he died before either book could be published. In the Foreword to his penultimate novel, Nightmare in Berlin, Hans Fallada concludes, "The book remains essentially a medical report, telling the story of the apathy that descended upon a large part, and more especially the better part, of the German population in April 1945." “Fallada describes Berlin as an almost post-apocalyptic city dominated by death, drugs, apathy, and the almost blackly comic pettiness of the human survival instinct. We publish books that matter — narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international, and translated fiction. He is best known for his translation of Erhard Eppler’s The Return of the State? On the other side of the world, ... J.M. And he thought to himself: What a start! For surely appearances will matter.

Allan Blunden), Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945). Stella’s phone rings. “[Nightmare in Berlin] begins in gripping style and is fascinating on the mentality of a population brought to its knees.” —Anthony Gardner, The Mail on Sunday “[Nightmare in Berlin] evokes the apathy and despair of postwar Germany with chilling resonance and the author’s trademark humanity.” —Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times The dateline is "Berlin, August 1946." Discuss Fallada’s creation of the Doll character as a reflection of the German nation at the time the book is set. More than anything, he wishes to vanquish the demon of collective guilt, but he is unable to right any wrongs, especially in his position as mayor of a small town in north-east Germany that has been occupied by the Red Army. But they made no protest, spoke not a word to their fellow passengers, and kept themselves to themselves. A tense and compelling literary thriller set You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy. and alcohol. Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable novel about the desolation of Hitler’s post-war Germany.

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