After Midnight
by Irmgard Keun
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Pub Date May 24 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Melville House Publishing | Melville House
Description
In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite, and devastating book. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions, and hysteria of pre-war Germany like no other novel. Yet even as it exposes human folly, the book exudes a hopeful humanism. It is full of humor and light, even as it describes the first moments of a nightmare. After Midnight is a masterpiece that deserves to be read and remembered anew.
Advance Praise
“I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane... one of those pieces of fiction that illuminate fact.”
—Sunday Telegraph
“Acerbically observed by this youthful, clever, undeceived eye….Crystalline yet acid.”
—Jewish Chronicle
“You can feel the creeping evil slowly infiltrate everyday existence. But this is also a love story.”
—Manchester Evening News
"If the original Nach Mitternacht is as lively as Anthea Bell's snappy English translation, Keun was not only a great satirist but also a great stylist. Now published for the first time in the United States, After Midnight is a sharp, vivid and uncompromising read on an impossible subject....[A] slim but important novel."
—Shelf Awareness
"Explosive....Even reading After Midnight today 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, a time of blacklists and book burnings....Keun has an amazing gift for exposing the conflict at the heart of the average citizen, whose naivete is eventually and sometimes violently stripped away....After Midnight haunts far beyond its final page."
—NPR.com's "Books We Like"
In addition to being an excellent work, After Midnight is a superb start to... Melville House's Neversink Library."
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781935554714 |
| PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 176 |
