Hailed as тАЬFalladaтАЩs best bookтАЭ (The New Yorker), this sprawling post-WWI is a portrait of Berlin in a time of great upheavalтАФand of the common manтАЩs struggle to survive it all
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Set in Weimar Germany soon after GermanyтАЩs 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 romanceтАФitтАЩs 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 FalladaтАЩs acclaimed Every Man Dies Alone as an immensely absorbing work of important literature.
тАЬAn unmissably brilliant portrait of Berlin before the Nazis.тАЭ тАФThe Times of London