Gilgi, One of Us - Irmgard Keun Translator: Silvester Mazzarella

Translator: Silvester Mazzarella

the entire worlds of girls Ivana and Dunja and their families is blown up and swept away

with an introduction by Olga Ravn

Translator: Desmond Lee

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled

Gilgi, One of Us - Irmgard Keun Translator: Silvester MazzarellaGilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even when her parents reveal a terrible secret on her twenty first birthday. Then she meets the charming but feckless Martin and, for the first time, Gilgi finds herself bewilderingly and dangerously derailed. Irmgard Keun's electrifying debut was an instant sensation in Weimar Germany, with its frank, fearless exploration of sex,