{"product_id":"wolf-among-wolvesisbn-9781933633923","title":"Wolf Among Wolves","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eHailed as “\u003c\/b\u003eFallada’s best book” (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), this sprawling post-WWI is a portrait of Berlin in a time of great upheaval\u003cb\u003e—and of the common man\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003es struggle to survive it all\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany’s catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses everything in Berlin, then flees the chaotic city, where worthless money and shortages are causing pandemonium. Once in the countryside, however, he finds a defeated German army that has decamped there to foment insurrection. Somehow, amidst it all, he finds romance—it’s \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Living Dangerously\u003c\/i\u003e in a European setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fast-moving as a thriller, fascinating as the best historical fiction, and with lyrical prose that packs a powerful emotional punch, \u003ci\u003eWolf Among Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e is the equal of Fallada’s acclaimed \u003ci\u003eEvery Man Dies Alone\u003c\/i\u003e as an immensely absorbing work of important literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An unmissably brilliant portrait of Berlin before the Nazis.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Times of London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His most ambitious novel . . . deeply moving . . . [Fallada] has evoked more than one can bear, but not more than it is necessary to learn, to keep and to understand.”  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Alfred Kazin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (1938)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The ideal summer read.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Katherine Powers, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “An unmissably brilliant portrait of Berlin before the Nazis.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Times of London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Outstanding . . . his novels, whatever their ultimate position in the literary rankings, are simply much more entertaining than the tomes produced by the usual German suspects, Mann, Hesse, Grass, Böll . . . if you fancy a book to take you right through your holidays and any possible delays at the airport, you couldn’t do better than \u003ci\u003eWolf Among Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Tibor Fischer, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Out of the multitude of episodes and a large cast of characters, the picture of post-war Germany during the terror of the inflation period, comes into reality, as in almost no other book we have had . . . A human document\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eand a moving picture of a Germany gone mad.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Fallada handles [the characters] not morbidly but with a Hogarthian exuberance and a tough humor, infusing into even those dying spirits the life of his copious imagination . . . Fallada’s best book.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e (1938)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “What other living German novelist shares with Fallada the power to grip the reader on the first page and hold him unremittingly through 1100 more?” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Bayard Q. Morgan, \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e (1938)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for Hans Fallada:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Fallada can be seen as a hero, a writer-hero who survived just long enough to strike back at his oppressors.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Alan Furst\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Fallada deserves high praise for having reported realistically, so truthfully, with such closeness to life.”  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Herman Hesse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrior to World War II, the novels of German writer \u003cb\u003eHans Fallada\u003c\/b\u003e (born Rudolf Ditzen) were international bestsellers. But when Jewish producers in Hollywood made his 1932 novel, \u003ci\u003eLittle Man, What Now? \u003c\/i\u003einto a major motion picture, the rising Nazi Party took notice of him. After he refused to join the Party and was denounced by neighbors for alleged anti-Nazi sympathies, Fallada, unlike many other prominent artists, decided not to leave Germany. During WWII he suffered an alcohol-and-drug-fueled nervous breakdown and landed in a Nazi insane asylum, where he nonetheless managed to write—in code—the brilliant subversive novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Drinker\u003c\/i\u003e. After the war, Fallada went on to write \u003ci\u003eEvery Man Dies Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, based on an actual Gestapo file, but he died in 1947 of a heart attack—brought on by drug abuse just before it was published.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304694272229,"sku":"NP9781933633923","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781933633923.jpg?v=1730758144","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wolf-among-wolvesisbn-9781933633923","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}