The Artificial Silk Girl
SKU: 9780241382967
£9.99Price
Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.
Pub Date
28-Mar-2019Format
PaperbackAuthor
Keun, IrmgardPublisher
Penguin ClassicsDimensions
198x129x9Weight
123