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King of China by Tilman Rammstedt ; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime--an all expenses paid holiday to any destination in the world--the eccentric old man arbitrarily chooses China, and he asks Keith to accompany him. But when Keith loses all the money for the journey at a casino, he go ...Show more
MOKUSEI A LOVE STORY by NOOTEBOOM CEES & DIXON ADRIENNE (TRANS)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its people--with its exoticism--and see Japan as it truly is? The Belgian has an idea: he helps the photogr ...Show more
Mr. Zed's Reflections by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and?Mr. Zed's Reflections?is no exception. Every afternoon for almost a year, a plump man named Mr. Zed comes to the same s ...Show more
Night Music by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\German List Ser.
Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by German philosopher and musicolo ...Show more
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos f ...Show more
One Day a Year - 2001-2011 by Christa Wolf; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: The\German List Ser.
During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th? Fascinated by considering the significance of a single day over many years, Wolf began keeping a detailed diary of September 27th, a practice which she carr ...Show more
Panopticon by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Tess Lewis (Translator)
Category: Culture | Series: The\German List Ser.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection of daring short essays on topical themes--politics, economics, religion, society--not from Jeremy Bentham's famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. "There," writes Enzensberger, "viewers co ...Show more
Prose by Thomas Bernhard; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"His manner of speaking, like that of all the subordinated, excluded, was awkward, like a body full of wounds, into which at any time anyone can strew salt, yet so insistent, that it is painful to listen to him," from The CarpenterThe Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is ...Show more
TUMULT by ENZENSBERGER HANS MAGNUS
Category: Biography | Series: The\German List Ser.
A collection of writings based on Enzensberger's personal experience as a left-wing sympathizer during the 1960s. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany's greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. Deri ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out--if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr rel ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
Category: Man Booker International Prize | Series: The\German List Ser.
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out--if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr rel ...Show more
The Great Fall by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center. He is scheduled to receive a presti ...Show more