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Every Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada

This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble under the Nazis—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.

“A signal literary event of 2009 has occurred… Rescued from the grave, from decades of forgetting…[Every Man Dies Alone] testifies to the lasting value of an intact, if battered, conscience." -The New York Times Book Review


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Bantam Dell Publishing Group
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Crown Reading Group Guides
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RH Publishing Group Reader's Circle
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Vintage/Anchor Books Reading Group Center
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