Little man, what comes next?

"Little man, what comes next?" — one of the most famous novels by Fallada, a true and disturbing chronicle of the life of a young German couple on the brink of the rise of Nazism. Johannes Pinneberg and his wife Lamb — "little people" — trying to maintain love and dignity in a world that is increasingly losing its human face. The loss of job, humiliation, fear of the future — all this is described with harsh precision, but without despair: the novel embodies a bright, stubborn belief in simple human happiness.

This is a book about a troubling time and those who lived in it. And, like any true literature, it remains remarkably relevant.