Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin Science Fiction and FantasyThe great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael HofmannFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again until one day
The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged
where he finds himself in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and the ghost-haunted country of his imagination
'With 60 recipes that take their inspiration from restaurants dishes served across the UK and further afield
a must read
but also one in which the author
'This was so much fun
sharp and insightful
________________________________ 'Progress explodes the great myth of our time
with stark consequences for its inhabitants and
she struggles her way to Inseon's house
is fiercely courageous
East is the vegetable book for people who aren't vegetarian