Finished: "Every Man Dies Alone" from the 1947 book by Hans Fallada: Jeder Stirbs fur sich allein. The author had spent several months in a German asylum toward the end of the war, and as the East German government took form under the Soviets, a friend of his loaned him the dossier on the Hampel case, which he fictionalized by entering the minds of the participants.

An unusual story, very readable translation.