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After Midnight by Irmgard Keun5/24/2023 ![]() "When there are two of you, you can laugh at a good many things which would make you cry on your own". As Sanna says at one point about her relationship with Franz. ![]() ![]() By using humour and satire Keun invites the reader to join in the sheer craziness of a country not only losing its mind but its soul. Keun injects humour to highlight Sanna's constant bewilderment at what is happening to her friends but also the political chaos of the day. Her lover Franz is stuck with her Aunt who she fears will denounce them, her brother can't publish his novels anymore and his wife is in love with Heini a disillusioned journalist-and then there is the ever manipulative Betty Raff who constantly needs to satiate her appetite for drama through vicarious means. However the streets of Frankfurt are blocked because the Fuhrer is holding a rally and the city including Sanna are in a state of flux. Depicting a young womans life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations. ![]() ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK - Susanna Moder, 19, known as Sanna is helping her sister-in- law to plan a party for a man who doesn't reciprocate her feelings (and is not her husband). ![]()
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