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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann)

Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I love. These books were blacklisted by the Nazis in 1933, primarily for their depictions of the modern young woman, […]

Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann)
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