Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped--even in the lady's bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti's Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girls' path--it is the Fürher in a motorcade procession, and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler's raised "empty hand." Then the pa...
Series: Neversink
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Melville House; 1st Published Edition edition (May 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935554417
ISBN-13: 978-1935554417
Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 0.4 x 7.9 inches
Amazon Rank: 2042322
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"You can open an envelope and take out something which bites or stings, though it isn't a living creature. I had a letter like that from Franz today."This opening line from Sanna was a great hook that brought immediacy and a tenseness that rarely dis...
r, and in the long hours after midnight Sanna and Gerti will face betrayal, death, and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era devoid of innocence or romance.In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite, and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions, and hysteria of pre-war Germany like no other novel. Yet even as it exposes human folly, the book exudes a hopeful humanism. It is full of humor and light, even as it describes the first moments of a nightmare. After Midnight is a masterpiece that deserves to be read and remembered anew.
