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The prostitution which paid so handsomely; the black market which brought in rich rewards, although it meant that the Berliners had to part with treasured possessions; the night clubs which catered for still baser tastes; the impoverished intellectuals and the starving professors and the poor who had only their wits with which to eke out a bare sustenance--all this and much else the author describes with insight, incisiveness, and realism.' \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'There is great charity in this book; there is the sharp, limpid eye of the artist; there is sound realism; and there is an unswerving, passionate desire to tell the truth. John Connell, \u003cem\u003eEvening News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'They were hard and terrible times, and brilliantly does Frances Faviell describe them for us. We meet the Altmann family and follow their joys and troubles. . 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The house itself, with paint peeling, tiles missing from the roof, its pretentious pillars pitted with gunfire, looked forlorn and neglected. But nothing could detract from the beauty of the acacia trees whose proud flowering dominated the scene and apologized for everything.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHaving made her publishing debut with \u003cem\u003eThe Dancing Bear\u003c\/em\u003e, a superb memoir of life in Berlin immediately after World War I, Frances Faviell applied first-hand knowledge to fiction, telling the riveting, harrowing tale of one large, troubled family in Germany nearly a decade after the war's end.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a town near Cologne, rebuilding is proceeding at a frantic pace, factory work is plentiful and well-paid, and the dark days of near-starvation have ended. 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