"How do I get rid of a bride?" The kind Ferdinand is too gentle for the harsh world around him. He meets Luise on a riverside bench, and before he knows it, they are engaged. But Ferdinand lives a precarious and unsettled life amidst the ruins of postwar Germany. Luise isn't so easily deterred. To get rid of her and thus at least relieve himself of one responsibility, Ferdinand tries to find Luise a new groom. Ferdinand's search for freedom becomes a search for himself—and perhaps for a small piece of happiness in the postwar era. Despite all the tragedy, Irmgard Keun's portrait of the young, good-natured Ferdinand is probably one of her most humorous and heartwarming novels. biography Irmgard Keun, born in Berlin in 1905, began writing at the age of 21 after a brief stage career. She emigrated in 1935. From 1940 to 1945, she lived illegally in Germany. After the war, she published two novels, pictures and poems from her time in exile, and a short story. She also worked for radio and newspapers. She died in Cologne in 1982. New product