{"product_id":"artificial-silk-girl","title":"Artificial Silk Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of \u003ci\u003eChild of All Nations \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDoris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Artificial Silk Gir\u003c\/i\u003el was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.","brand":"Irmgard Keun","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47285017542892,"sku":"9781635425086","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781635425086.jpg?v=1770398101","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/artificial-silk-girl","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}