Hailed as โFalladaโs best bookโ (The New Yorker), this sprawling post-WWI is a portrait of Berlin in a time of great upheavalโand of the common manโs struggle to survive it all
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Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germanyโs 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 romanceโitโs The Year of Living Dangerously in a European setting.
Fast-moving as a thriller, fascinating as the best historical fiction, and with lyrical prose that packs a powerful emotional punch, Wolf Among Wolves is the equal of Falladaโs acclaimed Every Man Dies Alone as an immensely absorbing work of important literature.
โAn unmissably brilliant portrait of Berlin before the Nazis.โ โThe Times of London