# Once a Jailbird

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- Authors: [Hans Fallada](https://www.bookquiver.com/hans-fallada)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-06-07

## Description

For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making... 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.

## Editions

### Once a Jailbird

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-809-4
- Published: 2012-06-07
- Language: en_GB

### Once a Jailbird

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-654-1
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2012-06-07
- Language: en_GB