The Artificial Silk Girl

Author(s): Irmgard Keun

Classics

Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780241382967
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin
  • : April 2019
  • : April 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Irmgard Keun
  • : Paperback