4 Ergebnisse.

Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Recently released from a prisoner-of-war camp, Ferdinand drifts around the city, strenuously avoiding his fiancée and drinking brandy with his fabulous cousin. But is this any way to go on? Told with Keun's characteristi...

Keine Beschreibung.

Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can't go back to Germany again - her father's books are banned there.

Available for the first time in English comes this timeless and enchanting classic by German author Keun--an enthralling novel in which some of the great themes of 1930s Europe are refracted through the eyes of a child who is both naive and wise beyond her years.