The Bread of Those Early Years

This masterful early work describes one day in the life of Walter Fendrich, a young washing machine repairman. Wry, ironic, yet intensely felt, it is an enchanting love story set amid the spiritual wreckage and growing materialism of postwar Germany.<br/><br/>Torn by insecurity and cynicism, Fendrich is obsessed with hunger, "with the wolf living inside my stomach." The water and wartime shortages haunt him at an insatiable craving for bread, a bottomless desperation for security and gratification of basic needs.. One day he finds himself and his world transformed when he meets the daughter of a high school principal. Love, he discovers suddenly, dispels his cravings as bread never could.