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Alone in Berlin (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
Short Description for Alone in BerlinIts Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their son has been killed.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 28 January 2010
- Format: Paperback 608 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780141189383 ISBN 10: 014118938X
- Sales rank: 653
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Reviews for Alone in Berlin
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Fantastic look at a paranoid society
This was a fantastic read - I so wanted something positive to happen and was cheering for the Quangels an unlikely revolutionary family. You realise that even the smallest things can make a difference and no matter who you are you can make your own stand.
Read my full www.ourbookclub.net.au review at http://www.ourbookclub.net.au/LiteratureAndFiction2011.php#alone-in-berlin by Tracy Hudson -
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Fascinating
An incredible insight into what it was like in Nazi Germany for ordinary Germans. Written a few years after the end of WWII, it is one of the best novels I have read about German resistance to the Nazis. Highly recommended. by Tessa Herrmann
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Tedious
Personally I found this book tedious. It just plods along in a very grey world with very grey characters who are invovled with each other is some way or other, but without any spark to the story. At one point one of the characters is killed off in a way that is incosistent with the plot, but then again it's not so much a plot, but a narrative (and a very grey, dull and boring one at that).
I couldn't wait to finish this book so as to get into something that really engaged me better. by Pauline
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