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Anselm Kiefer Notebooks Volume 1, 1998-99 by Anselm Kiefer; Tess Lewis (Translator)
Category: Art | Series: The\German List Ser.
"For a long time, it was not clear if I would become a writer or an artist," says Anselm Kiefer, whose paintings and sculptures have made him one of the most significant and influential artists of our time. Since he was awarded the Peace Prize by the German Book Trade in 2008, his essays, speeches, and ...Show more
At the Burning Abyss - Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem by Franz Fühmann; Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: The\German List Ser.
At the Burning Abyss is Franz Fühmann's magnum opus--a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, ...Show more
August by Christa Wolf ; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: The\German List Ser.
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contai ...Show more
Dispatches from Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge; Gerhard Richter; Nathaniel McBride (Translator)
Category: Gift | Series: The\German List Ser.
On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue--but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary.That c ...Show more
Goethe Dies by Thomas Bernhard; James Reidel (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: The\German List Ser.
This collection of four stories by the writer George Steiner called "one of the masters of European fiction" is, as longtime fans of Thomas Bernhard would expect, bleakly comic and inspiringly rancorous. The subject of his stories vary: in one, Goethe summons Wittgenstein to discuss the Tractatus Logico ...Show more
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
One Day a Year - 2001-2011 by Christa Wolf; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
Category: No Category | 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
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
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