Iron Gustav A Berlin Family Chronicle

Author: Hans Fallada

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  • : $29.99 AUD
  • : 9780141196534
  • : Penguin Books
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  • : 0.415
  • : July 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2014
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  • : English
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Description

This is a powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser. He who doesn't obey is shot down...'. Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better lives, some towards disaster. As war breaks out and Gustav's beloved Germany is devastated by hardship and violence, he finds everything he believes in destroyed. Can the man of iron endure, or even change? Brutal and moving, written with Hans Fallada's gift for capturing the small tragedies of ordinary lives, Iron Gustav is a heartbreaking family chronicle and an unflinching portrayal of the First World War and its aftermath.

Author description

Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born on 21 July 1893 in Greifswald as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. His other most famous works include the novels Little Man, What Now?, The Drinker, A Small Circus and the bestselling Alone in Berlin. Fallada died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in Berlin.