Wolf Among Wolves

<b><b>Hailed as “</b>Fallada’s best book” (<i>The New Yorker</i>), this sprawling post-WWI is a portrait of Berlin in a time of great upheaval<b>—and of the common man<b>’</b>s struggle to survive it all</b></b><br>  <br> Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany’s catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses everything in Berlin, then flees the chaotic city, where worthless money and shortages are causing pandemonium. Once in the countryside, however, he finds a defeated German army that has decamped there to foment insurrection. Somehow, amidst it all, he finds romance—it’s <i>The Year of Living Dangerously</i> in a European setting.<br><br> Fast-moving as a thriller, fascinating as the best historical fiction, and with lyrical prose that packs a powerful emotional punch, <i>Wolf Among Wolves</i> is the equal of Fallada’s acclaimed <i>Every Man Dies Alone</i> as an immensely absorbing work of important literature.<br><br>“An unmissably brilliant portrait of Berlin before the Nazis.” <b><i>—The Times of London</i></b>