These are darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author
of bestselling Alone in Berlin. In these stories, criminals lament how hard it
is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily str
uggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving tra
in; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes. Here, as
in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortles
sly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces l
arger than themselves: addiction, love, money.
