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After midnight / Irmgard Keun ; translated by Anthea Bell ; afterword by Geoff Wilkes.

by Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982.

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Melville House, 2011.

Young women -- Fiction.

Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction.

Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction.

Frankfurt am Main (Germany) -- Fiction.

9781935554417 (pbk.)

Nach Mitternacht. English English

Alternate title:

Nach Mitternacht.

169 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published in Germany, c1937.

Original German language title: Nach Mitternacht.

Translated from German.

"Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped--even in the lady's bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti's Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girls' path--it is the Furher in a motorcade procession, and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler's raised "empty hand." Then the parade is over, and in the long hours after midnight Sanna and Gerti will face betrayal, death, and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era devoid of innocence or romance. In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite, and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions, and hysteria of pre-war Germany like no other novel. Yet even as it exposes human folly, the book exudes a hopeful humanism. It is full of humor and light, even as it describes the first moments of a nightmare. After Midnight is a masterpiece that deserves to be read and remembered anew."--Publisher.

German fiction -- Translations into English.

Historical fiction.

Literary fiction.

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