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The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun Kazue departs to follow her

The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun Kazue departs to follow herDoris 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

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Kazue departs to follow her impulses wherever they might lead

Translator: John Sturrock

In a giddy rush

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

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

The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun Kazue departs to follow herDoris 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

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