Once a Jailbird: A Novel

About this book

For Willi Kufult prison life means staying out of trouble keeping his cell clean snagging a precious piece of tobacco and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg finding a job and even love he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink desperation deceit and with one terrible act he is ensnared in a noose of his own making . . . Hans Fallada whose famous works include Alone in Berlin and The Drinker brilliantly crafts this dark and moving novel originally written in 1934 as he describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds showing how our actions always catch up with us. His work is unparalleled and Once a Jailbird is a fantastic title to add to Falladas recently translated works. Skyhorse Publishing as well as our Arcade Yucca and Good Books imprints are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels novellas political and medical thrillers comedy satire historical fiction romance erotic and love stories mystery classic literature folklore and mythology literary classics including Shakespeare Dumas Wilde Cather and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.