A Small Circus

It is the summer of 1929, and in a small German town, a storm is brewing.

Tredup, a shabby reporter working for the Pomeranian Chronicle leads a precarious existence ... until he takes some photographs that offer him a chance to make a fortune.

While Tredup contemplates his next move, the town is buzzing. Farmers are plotting their revenge against greedy officials, a mysterious traveling salesman is stirring up trouble, and all the while, the Nazi party grows stronger as the Communists fight them in the street.

As the town slowly slips into chaos, Mayor "Fatty" Gareis does everything in his power to seek the easy life.

As tensions erupt between workers and bosses, town and country, Left and Right, alliances are broken, bribes are taken and plots are hatched, until the tension spills over into violence.

From the brilliant mind of Hans Fallada, A Small Circus is a genuine and frightening tale of small-town Germany during a time of unrest. Translated by Michael Hofmann, A Small Circus should be added to the incredible collection of novels by Hans Fallada that includes Once a Jailbird, The Drinker, and Alone in Berlin.