Back Then at Home Experienced, Experienced and Invented

Childhood memories of Fallada.In a similar manner to "Tales from the Murkelei," the real and the imagined are intertwined in an entertaining way here. Fallada describes the happy, whimsical aspects of his adolescence and adolescence in Berlin's "Reichsgerichtliche" parental home at the turn of the century. He speaks of family holidays, childhood bonds and struggles, and the Wilhelminian school system's pressures in bright, vibrant images.