Tales of a Long Night

Stated First U.S. Edition [with number sequence commencing with "2"]. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 486. Pictorial wrappers. Cover design by Harold Wortsman. Large format paperback, published simultaneously with the casebound issue.

Translated from the German by Robert and Rita Kimber.

Author's last novel, Hamlet, oder, Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende, was published posthumously in 1956 by the East Berlin publishing house Rütten & Loening. Written a decade earlier, its subject matter is an English family's coming to terms with the horrors of WWII. "His is one of the great names among the German novelists... It seems to me that Döblin perceives the visible world as something incomplete and that he feels compelled to improve upon it with his writing." –Franz Kafka