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Ferdinand The Man With The Kind Heart
Paperback Edition: 1
Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Recently released from a prisoner-of-war camp, Ferdinand drifts around the city, strenuously avoiding his fiancee and drinking brandy with his fabulous cousin. But is this any way to go on?
Told with Keun's characteristic humour, irony and generosity of spirit, this is a wry portrait of a man, a city and a nation that asks how we go on living even in the face of total defeat.
Pages : 192
Publisher : Penguin Books
Publication date : 2021-06-01
Subjects: Fiction, Published in the UK, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Fiction In Translation