Jugend auf der Landstrasse Berlin (Blood Brothers)
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1932.
First edition. (First printing with "1.bis 5. Tausend" on copyright page.) 230, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with paper title label. In German. Near Fine with a few faint stains to back board, slight lean.
An acclaimed German novel first translated into English in 2015 as Blood Brothers. From its American publisher: "Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty. Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner’s story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society."
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