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Blood Brothers:a Novel
[Paperback - 2015]
michael hofmann
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Thrillers
Additional Category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Other Press | ISBN: 9781590517048 | Pages: 192
Shipping Weight: .236 | Dimensions: 5.52 x .56 x 8.24 inches

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Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty.

Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner’s story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive the harsh realities of gang life, and finding in one another the legitimacy denied them by society.

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Ernst Haffner (1900? - 1938?) was a German social worker, journalist, and novelist whose only known novel,Blood Brothers, originally titled “Jugend auf der Landstrasse Berlin” (“Youth on the Streets of Berlin”), was published in 1932 to critical acclaim by Bruno Cassirer and banned by the Nazis one year later. Sometime over the course of World War II, all traces of Haffner were lost, including any professional and personal records that may have helped to indicate what led to his disappearance. There is just a single entry for him in the Berlin registry, where Haffner lived between 1925 and 1933. At the end of the 1930s, it is documented that he was summoned to appear at the Nazi Reichsschrifttumskammer (a writer’s union affiliated with the Third Reich), after which the details of his life remain unknown.Published in the last year before Hitler’s rise to power,Blood Brotherswas received a positive review by famed sociologist and philosopher Siegfried Kracauer in the Frankfurter Zeitung upon publication.The book was subject to the 1933 Nazi book burnings. Called by the ministery of Propaganda in the year 1938, Haffner never came back home and disapperead. His fate is unknown.Blood Brothers, titled Blutsbrüder in German, was reissued in 2013 by the German publishing house Metrolit Verlag (Berlin) ISBN 9783849300685. The first English edition, titled Blood Brothers, translated by Michael Hofmann was published in 2015

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