{"product_id":"books-the-artificial-silk-girl-by-irmgard-keun","title":"The Artificial Silk Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore \u003ci\u003eSex and the City\u003c\/i\u003e there was Bridget Jones. And before Bridget Jones was \u003ci\u003eThe Artificial Silk Girl.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's \u003ci\u003eGentlemen Prefer Blondes\u003c\/i\u003e to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Artificial Silk Girl, \u003c\/i\u003e became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature, in the tradition of Christopher Isherwood's \u003ci\u003eBerlin Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and Bertolt Brecht's \u003ci\u003eThree Penny Opera.\u003c\/i\u003e Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun revealed the dark underside of Berlin's golden twenties with empathy and honesty. Unfortunately, a Nazi censorship board banned Keun's work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies of \u003ci\u003eThe Artificial Silk Girl.\u003c\/i\u003e Only one English translation was published, in Great Britain, before the book disappeared in the chaos of the ensuing war. Today, more than seven decades later, the story of this quintessential material girl remains as relevant as ever, as an accessible new translation brings this lost classic to light once more. Other Press is pleased to announce the republication of \u003ci\u003eThe Artificial Silk Girl, \u003c\/i\u003e elegantly translated by noted Germanist Kathie von Ankum, and with a new introduction by Harvard professor Maria Tatar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480977760529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781590514542.jpg?v=1777553882","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-artificial-silk-girl-by-irmgard-keun","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}