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020			_a9781590514542 _qpbk.
040			_beng _cJGU
041			_aeng _hger
100			_aKeun, Irmgard, _91637485 _eauthor
245			_aThe artificial silk girl / _cIrmgard Keun ; translated by Kathie von Ankum ; introduction by Maria Tatar.
246			_aDas Kunstseidene Madchen
260			_aNew York : _bOther Press, _c2002.
520			_a"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 dark underside of Berlin's "golden twenties" with empathy and honesty. Unfortunately, a Nazi censorship board banned Keun's work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies of The Artificial Silk Girl. Only one English translation was published, in Great Britain, before the book disappeared in the chaos of the ensuing war. Today, more than seven decades later, the story of this quintessential "material girl" remains as relevant as ever, as an accessible new translation brings this lost classic to light once more. Other Press is pleased to announce the republication of The Artificial Silk Girl, elegantly translated by noted Germanist Kathie von Ankum, and with a new introduction by Harvard professor Maria Tatar."--
600			_aKeun, Irmgard, _y1905-1982 _91638402
650			_aYoung women _926919
650			_aGermany--Berlin _960911
650			_aGerman fiction _9882252
650			_aSingle women _994320
700	1		_aAnkum, Kathie von, _etranslator _91638403
999			_c3053136 _d3053136