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A Small Circus

A Small Circus

Author(s): Hans Fallada

Location(s): Germany

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1929

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It is 1929, and the Weimar Republic is being steadily weakened by conflicts between the factions pro democracy, and the anti-democratic forces, both left and right wing, which will eventually lead to victory for the of the National Socialists and Hitler. Everything is played out in Altholm, a small (fictitious) provincial town in Germany.

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Beautifully protrayed, this is the story of “everyman” and every town in Germany pre war, evocative of the era. – Till Swan –

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