
- Publisher:
- LADYBIRD
- Year of publication:
- 2019
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-38296-7
- Pages:
- 143
THE ARTIFICIAL SILK GIRL
IRMGARD KEUN
Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.