Child of All Nations
$38.45
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2009
Summary
First time in paperback for this charming novel of life in exile in the 1930s.
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 the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188454 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141188456 |
| Author: | Irmgard Keun, Michael Hofmann |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A delicious novel about an irreverent thirteen year old, Child of All Nations smokes and so does its heroine
A truly great read, in all the meanings of great - and funny and deft, heartening and terrible, relevant right now all over again – Ali SmithNothing short of a revelation … I am still haunted by it * Evening Standard *A delicious novel about an irreverent thirteen year old, Child of All Nations smokes and so does its heroine – Erica JongHugely engaging… with room for everything - shrewdness, forgiveness, wit and loneliness - while love makes all its hopeless deals with hope – Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces
About The Author
Irmgard Keun
Irmgard Keun was born in Berlin in 1905. After leaving school and trying her luck as an actress, she began to write in 1929 and found instant success with her early novels, which were blacklisted by the Nazis for their ‘immoral’ depictions of the Modern Young Woman. From 1936 to 1938 she travelled through Europe with the writer Joseph Roth and published several novels, including Child of All Nations in 1938. Roth died in 1939 and Keun spent the war in Germany, living semi-legally under an assumed name. Following the war, she made a living writing humorous sketches for radio and magazines, published one more novel and had a daughter, whom she brought up alone. At the end of her life, her books gained a new following from a younger generation of feminists. Irmgard Keun died in 1982.
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