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The Artificial Silk Girl

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The Artificial Silk Girl

By Irmgard Keun

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About the book

A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely movin...Show more

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ISBN

9780241382967

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Artificial Silk Girl

Format

Paperback

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