The Artificial Silk Girl
Author: Keun, Irmgard
ISBN: 9780241382967
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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 moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.
ISBN: 9780241382967
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2019
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 195mm x 129mm x 14mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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 moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.
