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Barn utan land

AvIrmgard Keun

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

239 kr

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För första gången på svenska, i översättning av Martin Lagerholm, kommer nu Irmgard Keuns klassiker Barn utan land. Romanen handlar om Kully, en tioårig flicka som tillsammans med sina föräldrar lever i exil och reser runt i Europa under 1930-talet. Hennes far är författare och har lämnat Nazityskland för att undkomma förföljelse. Den lilla familjen lever ett osäkert liv, ständigt på flykt från land till land, och deras ekonomiska situation är svår. Pappan är ofta frånvarande medan mamman förtvivlat försöker hålla ihop världen för Kully. Historien berättas genom Kullys ögon, vilket ger en kontrast till den politiska oron och de vuxnas svårigheter. I en skarp och känslig, men samtidigt okonstlad och naiv berättarstil utforskar romanen teman som rotlöshet, barndom i kris, hur exilen påverkar individens identitet och ger en djup inblick i emigranters situation i Europa.

Barn utan land (Kind aller länder) gavs ut i Amsterdam första gången 1938. Irmgard Keun var redan en bästsäljande författare när hennes böcker förbjöds i Tyskland. Hon gick i exil i Oostende, där hon bland annat skrev Barn utan land.

IRMGARD KEUN född 1905 i Berlin, död 1982 i Köln, var en tysk författare och journalist med anknytning till den litterära expressionismen. Hon debuterade 1931 med romanen Gilgi-eine von uns som även filmatiserades. 1933 förbjöds hon av det kulturpolitiska organet Reichskulturkammer att publicera sina böcker och 1936 emigrerade hon till Belgien och senare Nederländerna. 1940 återvände hon illegalt till Tyskland och efter 1945 arbetade hon som journalist. Hennes böcker glömdes bort men återupptäcktes på 1970-talet.

Det här är jättebra, det är gripande men med humorMonica Lindgren, Go'kväll

Child of All Nations

AvIrmgard Keun

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

145 kr

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Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can’t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can’t go back to Germany again – her father’s books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn’t understand, like why there might be a war in Europe – just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father. Meanwhile she and her parents roam through Europe. Her mother would just like to settle down, but as her restless father struggles to find a new publisher, the three must escape from country to country as their visas expire, money runs out and hotel bills mount up.

Artificial Silk Girl

AvIrmgard Keun

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

139 kr

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A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.

Gilgi, One of Us

AvIrmgard Keun

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

144 kr

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A brilliant, bestselling feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations'A formidable literary talent ... Sharp yet naïve, Gilgi is utterly human' Irish TimesGilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even when her parents reveal a terrible secret on her twenty-first birthday. Then she meets the charming but feckless Martin and, for the first time, Gilgi finds herself bewilderingly and dangerously derailed. Irmgard Keun's electrifying debut was an instant sensation in Weimar Germany, with its frank, fearless exploration of sex, work and love.Translated by Geoff Wilkes'How contemporary the novel feels, with its portrait of a woman fighting to maintain control over her life and her body' The New York Times

After Midnight

AvIrmgard Keun

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

132 kr

Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane' Sunday TelegraphNineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What's more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard Keun's masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour.Translated by Anthea Bell

Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart

AvIrmgard Keun

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

133 kr

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'A great writer' Ali SmithNewly translated by Michael Hofmann, the touching final novel from the author of Child of All Nations'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either'Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Ferdinand - daydreamer, former prisoner of war, wearer of a curious jerkin - drifts around the city, observing life's absurdities, strenuously avoiding his fiancée and drinking brandy with his fabulous cousin. When he gets a job as a 'cheerful adviser' to those down on their luck, will Ferdinand's fortunes change too?Irmgard Keun's exuberantly funny and touching final novel takes the tiny moments of triumph and defeat in one man's life, and turns them into a moving portrait of the human spirit.

After Midnight

AvIrmgard Keun

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

83 kr

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksArrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from over. Her best friend Gerti has fallen for a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted, and her own aunt could turn her in to the authorities at any moment. Darkly humorous and utterly heart rending, this gripping novel vividly captures the terror and hysteria of pre-war Nazi Germany.