The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun the ambitions and shortcomings of

the ambitions and shortcomings of the island’s turbulent twentieth century are played out by its occupants

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It is a work of poetry to be cherished by lovers old and new

Translator: Raymond Rosenthal

But China is occupied by invading Japanese forces and things are not always what they seem in wartime

The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun the ambitions and shortcomings ofDoris 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