Hans Fallada's 'Iron Gustav' gives a detailed account from the perspective of a family in Berlin, what happened in Germany from 1914 onwards.
The book was first published in 1938 but the first full edition was published in 1962, with the revised edition published in Penguin Classics in 2014.
Its insights in explaining what happened are simply brilliant.
Worryingly, it may have something to say about our times too.
Some months back Eileen Batterrsby seemed to have been fulsome in her praise of the book. Not at all, it is a brilliant read and not to be missed.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Featured Post
The little boy from Chicago who becomes Leo XIV
Not in any disparaging or insulting way, this is very American but it is worth watching. After all, he is an American pope, the first, to bo...
-
In the current edition of the Irish Catholic David Quin writes about the controversy happening between US Catholic politicians and the US hi...
-
Former Dominican priest Tom Tom Brodie Brodie died in a nursing home in Galway yesterday. He had been ailing for some time. He was born in C...
-
The story below is from The Irish Times of yesterday. The article is written by Arthur Beesley. On face value this is a shocking story and i...
No comments:
Post a Comment