USA, NY, Brooklyn, Melville House Publishing, 2009. — 384 p. — eISBN 978-1-61219-064-8.
Translation by Susan Bennett, 1996.
Since its first publication in 1933, this novel has become a world classic. It provides a vivid, poignant picture of life in Germany just before Hitler's takeover and focuses on a young married couple struggling to survive in the country's nightmarish inflation. The book was also the breakthrough for Fallada as a writer of fiction.