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The inspiration for rainer werner fassbinders epic film and that the guardian named one of the top 100 books of all time, berlin alexanderplatz is. In michael hofmanns extraordinary new translation, alfred. Alexanderplatz has a small ticket office reisezentrum. He moved to berlin at the age of ten, where he remained for the next 45 years. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison for doing some stupid stuff, he finds himself thwarted by an external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Buy berlin alexanderplatz by alfred doblin 9780141191621 2019 from. Berlin alexanderplatz brought fame in 1929 to its author alfred doeblin, until then an impecunious writer and doctor in a workingclass neighbourhood in the east of berlin. In this sordid world there are new womendevoted eva. Berlin alexanderplatz penguin modern classics authors.
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