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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241339244

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • Dimensions: 161mm x 6mm x 112mm

  • Weight: 50g

  • RRP: £1.00

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...'

Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241339244

  • Length: 64  Pages

  • Dimensions: 161mm x 6mm x 112mm

  • Weight: 50g

  • RRP: £1.00

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About the Author

Hans Fallada

Hans Fallada was born in Germany in 1893. His life was checkered by a failed adolescent suicide pact in which his friend died, addiction to morphine and alcohol, periods of incarceration in prison and mental hospitals, and brushes with the Nazi regime. His most famous novels include Little Man, What Now?, The Drinker and Alone in Berlin, written in 24 days. Fallada died weeks before its publication, in February 1947 in Berlin.

Hans Fallada

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