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Enemy territory

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June 2013, no. 352

The Drinker by Hans Fallada, translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A.L. Lloyd

Scribe, $22.95 pb, 288 pp, 9781922070319

Enemy territory

by
June 2013, no. 352

The Drinker, by Hans Fallada – first published in Germany in 1950, translated by Charlotte and A.L. Lloyd into English in 1952, unearthed for an Anglophone audience in 2009 by Melville House, and now published by Scribe – is the story of Erwin Sommer, who drinks himself, almost unaccountably, to death. It counts for everything, of course, to know that the novel was written in 1944 in a Nazi insane asylum. 

William Heyward reviews 'The Drinker' by Hans Fallada, translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A.L. Lloyd

The Drinker

by Hans Fallada, translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A.L. Lloyd

Scribe, $22.95 pb, 288 pp, 9781922070319

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