IRMGARD KEUN become an overnight sensation in German literary
circles with the publication of her first novel, Gilgi, at the age
of 21. Her second novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, shot to
bestseller status in 1932, only to be placed the next year on an
early Nazi blacklist. Eventually sentenced to death by the Nazis,
she fled the country again and staged her own suicide ... then
snuck back into Germany where she lived undercover for the duration
of the war. She died in 1982, shortly after her work was
rediscovered by feminist critics and general readers in
Germany.
Translator GEOFF WILKES is a Lecturer in German at the University
of Queensland. He wrote the afterwords to Keun's novel After
Midnight and to Hans Fallada's Every Man Dies
Alone.
"A formidable literary talent."
—Eileen Battersby's Books of the Year 2014, The Irish Times
Praise for After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
"The overwhelming power of Keun's work lies in her surprisingly
raw, witty, and resonant feminine voices."
—Bookslut
"Explosive....Even reading After Midnight today feels dangerous...
Haunts far beyond its final page.
—NPR
"Acerbically observed by this youthful, clever, undeceived
eye....Crystalline yet acid."
—Jewish Chronicle
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