# The Artificial Silk Girl

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- Book: [The Artificial Silk Girl](https://www.bookquiver.com/irmgard-keun/the-artificial-silk-girl) ([The Artificial Silk Girl.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/irmgard-keun/the-artificial-silk-girl.md))
- Authors: [Irmgard Keun](https://www.bookquiver.com/irmgard-keun)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-296-7
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2019-03-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.