Every Man Dies Alone: Special 10th Anniversary Edition
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 for each other.
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I thought this was an amazing book about what it was like inside Germany during the rise of Nazism and during world war II there. What led me to the book was wondering whether there had been any sustained resistance to the Nazis in Germany itself. This doesn't get into just how much overall resistance there was in Germany, but focuses on one real couple and what they did. I think Fallada's writing is powerful and evocative and I found myself drawn in very compellingly. It also raised many questions I would love to discuss with someone and it certainly touches on issues that I think continue to be relevant, especially right now in the United states.
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