<div>It is the summer of 1929, and in a small German town, a storm is brewing.<br><br>Tredup, a shabby reporter working for the <i>Pomeranian Chronicle</i>, leads a precarious existence . . . until he takes some photographs that offer him a chance to make a fortune.<br><br>While Tredup contemplates his next move, the town is buzzing. Farmers are plotting their revenge against greedy officials, a mysterious traveling salesman is stirring up trouble, and all the while, the Nazi party grows stronger as the Communists fight them in the street.<br><br>As the town slowly slips into chaos, Mayor “Fatty” Gareis does everything in his power to seek the easy life.<br><br>As tensions mount between workers and bosses, town and country, and Left and Right, alliances are broken, bribes are taken, and plots are hatched, until the tension spills over into violence.<br><br>From the brilliant mind of one of Germany’s most celebrated writers, <i>A Small Circus</i> is a genuine and frightening tale of small-town Germany during a time of unrest. It belongs in the collection of every reader who has enjoyed his break-out classics.</div>