{"product_id":"artificial-silk-girl-the-1","title":"Artificial Silk Girl, The","description":"A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Artificial Silk Girl 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":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56775136772431,"sku":"9780241382967","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780241382967_1-artificial-silk-girl-the.jpg?v=1770116653","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/artificial-silk-girl-the-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}