The daily lives of ordinary Germans in Berlin during WWII, and the small acts of simple defiance a few of them chanced. It's a love story, a terrifying study in the workings of a police state, and a police procedural describing the hunt for the perps.
Originally published in 1947 and translated from the German only last year, it wound up on about 20 "best of the year" fiction lists. The 500-page novel was written in 24 days shortly after the end of WWII and Fallada’s release from a Nazi mental asylum. He died before it was published.
The book has been filmed twice, once as a television mini-series for German TV, but these are not available on DVD in the US.
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