The Drinker

by Hans Fallada

Genres: Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Written in an encrypted notebook while incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum and only discovered after his death, The Drinker may be Hans Fallada’s most breathtaking piece of craftsmanship. It is an intense yet absorbing study of the descent into drunkenness by an intelligent man who fears he’s lost it all.
 
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Release date: March 29, 2011

Publisher: Melville House

Print pages: 320