Ebook {Epub PDF} After Midnight by Irmgard Keun

After Midnight (Paperback) Irmgard Keun. Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, ISBN ISBN After Midnight is a masterpiece that deserves to be read and remembered anew. IRMGARD KEUN (–) became a sensation in her native Germany with the publication of her first novel, Gilgi, when she was  · She wrote bestselling novels but once the Nazis took power the books were withdrawn from circulation. Keun, in fact, even dared to seek damages from the Gestapo for lost profits after it seized unsold copies of the novels. While she fled the country in , she published several novels in Amsterdam, including After Midnight. She then returned to Germany in under an assumed Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.

After Midnight by Irmgard Keun ( - ) is set Nazi Germany in It is told in the first person by 19 year-old Susanne Moder, also known as Sanna. The novel's protagonist spends her time interacting and socializing with a host of family members, friends and acquaintances, and falling in love with her fiancé, Franz. Irmgard Keun. Irmgard Keun was born in Berlin in and found instant success with her novels Gilgi () and The Artificial Silk Girl (). Everything changed in when the Nazis blacklisted her and destroyed her books; in response, she attempted to sue the Gestapo for loss of earnings. After Midnight by Irmgard Keun (tr. Anthea Bell) 31 Replies Last year I read and loved Irmgard Keun's novel The Artificial Silk Girl, written in the early s as a sort of German response to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos.

After being arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo, Keun left her husband and escaped Germany. While wandering in exile, Keun conducted an eighteen-month affair with the writer Joseph Roth and finished After Midnight, published in In Keun staged her suicide and, under a false identity, re-entered Germany, where she lived in hiding until the end of the war. After Midnight - Ebook written by Irmgard Keun. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read After Midnight. After Midnight, written by Irmgard Keun in during her exile in Holland, is just one such book. Now translated into English by the admirable Anthea Bell, the first since the original translation in , it belongs into a select treasure collection of recently re-discovered notable German fiction, written either just before or right after World War II.