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By the author of Alone in Berlin, here is an unforgettable portrayal of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in Germany by WWII. April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, mayor of a small town in northeast Germany, is haunted by nightmares. He and his wife flee to Berlin, where they try to make their way in the chaos of a city torn apart by war, while battling morphine addiction.

Hans Fallada (1893–1947) was the pen name of German author Rudolf Ditzen, whose books were international bestsellers on a par with those of his countrymen Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. He opted to stay in Germany when the Nazis came to power, and eventually had a nervous breakdown when he was put under pressure to write anti-Semitic books. He was cast into a Nazi insane asylum, where he secretly wrote The Drinker. Immediately after the war he wrote his last two novels, The Nightmare and Alone in Berlin, but he died before either book could be published.

Dr Allan Blunden is a British translator who specialises in German literature. He is best known for his translation of Erhard Eppler’s The Return of the State? which won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize. He has also translated biographies of Heidegger and Stefan Zweig, and the prison diary of Hans Fallada.