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Also by Irmgard Keun:

The Artificial Silk Girl, June 2011
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After Midnight, June 2011
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AFTER MIDNIGHT
By: Irmgard Keun

Melville House Publishing
June 2011
On Sale: May 31, 2011
176 pages
ISBN: 1935554719
EAN: 9781935554714
Paperback
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Literature and Fiction

In this riveting rediscovery written from within Nazi Germany, a naïve young girl finds her happy-go-lucky life impinged upon when the Führer comes to town to make a speech.

Sanna and her ravishing friend Gerti would rather speak of love than politics, but in 1930s Frankfurt, politics cannot be escaped— even in the lady’s bathroom. Crossing town one evening to meet up with Gerti’s Jewish lover, a blockade cuts off the girls’ path—it is the Fürher in a motorcade procession, and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler’s raised “empty hand.” Then the parade is over, and in the long hours after midnight Sanna and Gerti will face betrayal, death, and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era devoid of innocence or romance.