After Midnight
  • Published: 21 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241391822
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

After Midnight

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15 Jul 2025
Paperback
21 Jul 2020
EBook
6 Dec 2019
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Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations

Nineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What's more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard Keun's masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour.
  • Published: 21 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241391822
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for After Midnight

I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane

Sunday Telegraph

Acerbically observed by this youthful, clever, undeceived eye....Crystalline yet acid

Jewish Chronicle

Explosive ... Reading After Midnight today [still] feels dangerous. I kept turning to the copyright page, unable to believe that such a sexually and politically frank book could have been published in 1937 Germany ... After Midnight haunts far beyond its final page

NPR

Brief, important and haunting

Penelope Lively
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