Max in Luck: Max Schreyvogel and his wife Karla are summoned to the justice council, where they are informed that Uncle Eduard has passed away and they are to inherit his estate. When a photo of the new millionaires appears in the Radebuscher Kurier, their ordinary life comes to an abrupt end: envy knocks at their door, and soon their household harmony is in disarray. This book about the questionable happiness of an unexpected windfall is one of Hans Fallada's most cheerful novels. "You can't make this up; it belongs to reality. And it is recounted accurately down to the last comma: you can feel that the people spoke this way and not otherwise." Kurt Tucholsky on Hans Fallada.