false 3344411 11 "The greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis." -Primo Levi This never-before-translated masterpiece-by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn't join the Nazi Party-is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in. In the end, it's more than an edge-of-your-seat thriller, more than a moving romance, even more than literature of the highest order-it's a deeply stirring story of two people standing up for what's right, and each other. <b>Hans Fallada</b> was one of Germany's best-selling authors-ranking with Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse-prior to the rise of the Nazis. But while those writers fled Germany, Fallada stayed. Refusing to join the Nazi Party, he suffered numerous difficulties, including incarceration in an insane asylum. After the war, he wrote <i>Every Man Dies Alone</i> based on an actual Gestapo file. He died just before its publication in 1947. 1481990 book 1947 Every Man Dies Alone total:188|5:77|4:83|3:22|2:3|1:3| 188 792 792 96 5 3 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 08:58:51 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 09 16:13:35 -0800 2009
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W.G. Sebald has written at length that German writers, for the most part, simply did not write about the time in Germany at the end of the war and the five or ten years after the war. Similarly, it seems to me that not many have novelized life under the Third Reich. I'm no expert...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 15:37:56 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:05:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 02:41:19 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 02:47:49 -0700 2009
The premise is excellent -- ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 18:30:31 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 18:37:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jun 30 07:51:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 07:51:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 08:44:25 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 08:46:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 05 11:45:47 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 11:46:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 14:00:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 13:56:28 -0700 2009
I do feel that the publisher owed me better translating and editing. There were p...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 10:20:58 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 10:25:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 03:05:33 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 10:54:27 -0700 2009
One of the things that took away from the story for me may have been sloppy translating. Ve...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 07:52:49 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 07:52:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu May 28 10:32:52 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 10:47:32 -0700 2009
"Fallada wrote this novel in twenty-four days in 1947, the last year of his life; he was addicted to drugs and alcohol, and had just been released from a Nazi insane asylum. The story is based on that of an actual working-class Berlin couple who conduct...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 18:34:47 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 13:45:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 21:32:19 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 21:42:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 13:12:43 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 11:29:28 -0700 2009 There is good reason to skip the category of books known as Historical Fiction, and sometimes the reason is obvious. The dutiful re-imagining of epic, faraway historical circumstances, conversation intimately exchanged there, often on the dizzying verge of tragedy or sacrifice ... is the stuf...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 21:34:30 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 21:34:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 13:19:02 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 08:27:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 13:05:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 07:40:55 -0700 2009
I loved the concept of this book, which is fiction based on real people who opposed Hitler in Nazi Germany in their own small way. I was very interested in the characters who left the postcards, and wish it focused more on them. I could have d...more...]]>