# Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

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- Authors: [Hans Fallada](https://www.bookquiver.com/hans-fallada)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4133-925-1
- Published: 2018-02-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.