{"id":270016,"date":"2009-04-07T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/04\/07\/gbo-giveaway-hans-falladas-every-man-dies-alone\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:09","slug":"gbo-giveaway-hans-falladas-every-man-dies-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/04\/07\/gbo-giveaway-hans-falladas-every-man-dies-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"GBO Giveaway: Hans Fallada&#39;s Every Man Dies Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest books this spring&#8212;at least in terms of general coverage and growing hype&#8212;has to be Hans Fallada&#8217;s rediscovered masterpiece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamandrum.com\/bookshop\/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&#38;products_id=68317\"><em>Every Man Dies Alone.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s based on a true story of a working class couple living in Berlin during <span class=\"caps\">WWII<\/span> who launch a &#8220;simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a world of terrified neighbors and cynical snitches ready to turn them in.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>The novel&#8217;s been receiving heaps of praise, including a very positive review in the <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em> that opens: &#8220;A signal literary event of 2009 has occurred.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I should save this for my upcoming <span class=\"caps\">PRI<\/span> post, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/node\/25000\">The World<\/a> recently did a segment on <em>The Kindly Ones<\/em> and <em>Every Man Dies Alone<\/em> that included a brief conversation with Ulrich Ditzen, Fallada&#8217;s son. <\/p>\n<p>All of this build-up is just to let you know that the German Book Office in New York is giving away five free copies of the beautifully produced hardcover. To get one, just e-mail Hannah Johnson at johnson at gbo dot org.<\/p>\n<p>(And if you want to get future announcements from the <span class=\"caps\">GBO<\/span>, be sure to join their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#\/group.php?gid=38195169914\">Facebook Group.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest books this spring&#8212;at least in terms of general coverage and growing hype&#8212;has to be Hans Fallada&#8217;s rediscovered masterpiece, Every Man Dies Alone. It&#8217;s based on a true story of a working class couple living in Berlin during WWII who launch a &#8220;simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,20086,4336,10276,20076,2816,1646],"class_list":["post-270016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-every-man-dies-alone","tag-german-book-office","tag-hannah-johnson","tag-hans-fallada","tag-melville-house","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324136,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270016\/revisions\/324136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}