Lyrically affected ladies are apt to commit thoughtless deeds.
Slightly late with this update as I’ve been a bit under the weather (though not with Covid according to my tests!). However, while April hasn’t been all it might have been March was pretty good. Mostly it was a return to authors who’re now old favourites, but there were some new discoveries too.
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart, Irmgard Keun (translated by Michael Hofmann)
I started with what was sadly my last unread Irmgard Keun. Unusually for Keun this features a male protagonist, Ferdinand, a chancer in a world of chancers. Here we’re in post-war Germany, where ...