Once a jailbird : [A novel] /
H. Fallada; Translated by Eric Sutton; Revised by Nicholas Jacobs, Gardis Cramer von Laue and Linden Lawson ; Afterword by Jenny Williams.
- Revised edition
- London ; New York : Penguin books, 2012.
- 487 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Penguin modern classics .
Hans Fallada's dark and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our actions always catch up with us.