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All Days are Night by Peter Stamm; Michael Hofmann
Category: Fiction
Peter Stamm, short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, breaks new ground in this haunting novel about survival, self-reliance, and art, available for the first time in paperback. All Days Are Night is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful woman. Married and working a dream job ...Show more
Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky; Michael Hofmann; Michael Hofmann (Introduction by, Translator)
Category: Fiction
A beguiling fable about a summer holiday in the Swedish countryside that transforms into a provocative parable about oppression and the evil awaiting Europe as the Nazis came to power. Castle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday ...Show more
Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen (tr Michael Hofmann)
Category: Fiction
A powerful novel about family and society in post-war Germany. In Rome, four members of a German family are reunited by chance. A young composer, Siegfried; his estranged father, Freidrich, who held office under the Nazis and is once more making his way in public life, this time as a democratically el ...Show more
Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Poems by HOFMANN MICHAEL
Category: Poetry
Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Bo ...Show more
Hans Hofmann - The Nature of Abstraction by Lucinda Barnes; Ellen G. Landau; Michael Schreyach (Contribution by); Hans Hofmann; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Staff (Contribution by)
Category: Art
Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers a fresh and revealing assessment of the artist's prolific and innovative painterly career. The comprehensive exhibition and accompanying catalogue will feature approximately seventy paintings and works on paper by Hofmann from 1930 through the end of his li ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog : And Other Creatures by Franz Kafka , Transl: Michael Hofmann
Category: Fiction
Description: Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka's lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in "Little Fable" to the absurd humor of "Inv ...Show more
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters by Joseph Roth, trnslated and edited by Michael Hofmann
Category: Biography Memoir
The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth--with Kafka, Mann, and Musil--in the twentieth-century literary canon. Who would have thought that seventy-three years after Joseph Roth's lonely death in Paris, new editions of his translations would be appearing regularly? Rot ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize. Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos-an unforgettably compelling masterpiece-tells the story of the romance ...Show more
Kairos (HB) by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (translator)
Category: Fiction
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada; Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells the story of a young German couple trying to eke out a decent life amidst an economic crisis that is transforming their country into a place of anger and despair. Little Man, What Now?was an international bestseller upon its ...Show more