Gilgi, One of Us - Irmgard Keun love affairs

love affairs

the consolations of storytelling and the arrival of the first tulips of spring

a Latin professor

Translator: Silvester Mazzarella

with an introduction by Olga Ravn

Gilgi, One of Us - Irmgard Keun love affairsGilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even when her parents reveal a terrible secret on her twenty first birthday. Then she meets the charming but feckless Martin and, for the first time, Gilgi finds herself bewilderingly and dangerously derailed. Irmgard Keun's electrifying debut was an instant sensation in Weimar Germany, with its frank, fearless exploration of sex,