Original novel by Alfred Doblin offers a unique historical perspective on Berlin and the Weimar era
Michael Hofmann's translation delivers an accurate and engaging reading experience
Focus on Franz Biberkopf's life provides insight into the social and political landscape of early 20th-century Germany
English edition makes this literary classic accessible to a wider audience
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Berlin Alexanderplatz will be back in stock soon. Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century—gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word-drunk, pitch-dark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English fo
