This is the book that led to Hans Fallada's downfall with the Nazis. The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation and was made into an acclaimed Hollywood movie produced by Jews, leading Hitler to ban Fallada's work from being translated.<br><br>Nonetheless, it remains, as <i>The Times Literary Supplement </i>notes, “the novel of a time in which public and private merged even for those whowanted to stay at home and mind their own business."