The Artificial Silk Girl

by Irmgard Keun

In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature, in the tradition of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and Bertolt Brecht's Three Penny Opera. Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun revealed the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635425085
• ISBN13: 9781635425086
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.