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Every Man Dies Alone

By: Hans Fallada, Michael Hofman - translator
Narrated by: George Guidall
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Hans Fallada wrote this stunning novel in only 24 days - just after being released from a Nazi insane asylum. Based on a true story, Every Man Dies Alone tells of a German couple who try to start an uprising by distributing anti-fascist postcards during World War II. But their dream ultimately proves perilous under the tyranny that dominates every corner of Hitler’s Germany.

©2009 Melville House Publishing; Translation, Michael Hofman (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC Historical Fiction 20th Century Literary Fiction Genre Fiction Thriller & Suspense

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"The book has the suspense of a John le Carré novel, and offers a visceral, chilling portrait of the distrust that permeated everyday German life during the war." (The New Yorker)
Compelling Historical Fiction • Masterful Characterization • Authentic Nazi-era Portrayal • Multilayered Plot

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How this happened to a nice and intelligent bunch of people like the Germans is bewildering even today.
Fallada masterfully illuminates this intriguing point in fiction so detailed that it seems more like a documentary work.

Truly, a thrilling work of genius.

Germany in the throws of self destruction

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Interesting, but I was glad to have finished it and go on to something more my style.

Glad it is over!

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After finishing this book i felt I had to research the true story it was based on. Like the members of The White Rose and other groups that resisted th Nazis, the Quangels (in real life the Hempels) acted with a selflessness and bravery that the reader can't help but admire and aspire to. Could I martyr myself to a cause, even the ultimately most just cause in history, resisting Hitler? Who among us would or could? The Quangels/Hempels were ordinary, hardworking people, not well educated, armed only with a deeply ingrained sense of morality, pen, ink and postcards. This book was one of the first anti-Nazi novels to be published post-WW2. Brilliant, heartbreaking, unforgettable.

Hauntingly brilliant

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Intriguing and a very good reminder of what can take over life and our morals and decency - IF we allow it. Well written, and remember to not turn it off as soon as the novel ends. You won’t want to miss he bio of the author.

The novel was fantastic - hard to make myself take a break!

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From the first words you will be transported into a world of frustration, paranoia, and fear, where even the wolves are running from the wolves.

A portal into war time Berlin under nazi rule

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