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Our Philosopher

by Gert Hofmann ...

Translated by Eric Mace-Tessler ...

A powerful novel about prejudice, violence, and complicity in Nazi Germany, this spare and evocative work interrogates shows how a group of people can slip towards extremism and barbarity in the blink of an eye.The time is the 1930s. Our philosopher is Herr Veilchenfeld, a renowned thinker and distinguished professor, who, after his sudden dismissal from the university, has retired to live quietly ... Read more

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A powerful novel about prejudice, violence, and complicity in Nazi Germany, this spare and evocative work interrogates shows how a group of people can slip towards extremism and barbarity in the blink of an eye.The time is the 1930s. Our philosopher is Herr Veilchenfeld, a renowned thinker and distinguished professor, who, after his sudden dismissal from the university, has retired to live quietly
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Stasi Child

by David Young ...

Series series Karin Müller Thrillers
**David Young's chillingly intricate Stasi Child was A London Times "Crime Book of the Month" and a Telegraph Pick of the Week.1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Muller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Berlin Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But she soon realizes that this is a death like no other before it - the girl was evidently trying to escape from West ... Read more

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**David Young's chillingly intricate Stasi Child was A London Times "Crime Book of the Month" and a Telegraph Pick of the Week.1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Muller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Berlin Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But she soon realizes that this is a death like no other before it - the girl was evidently trying to escape from West
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A Gushing Fountain

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by Martin Walser ...

Translated by David Dollenmayer ...

Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle.In a provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann ... Read more

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Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle.In a provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 2

by Miya Kazuki ...

Translated by quof ...

Series Book 2 - Ascendance of a Bookworm
It has been a year since our hero was reborn into a new world in the body of Myne, a sickly little girl from a poor family. She's been doing her best to fulfill her dream of making books, but her plans have been foiled at every turn.But now Myne has a deal with Benno the merchant: With her friend Lutz's help, she will make a paper prototype that he can sell in his shop. In exchange, he will take ... Read more

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It has been a year since our hero was reborn into a new world in the body of Myne, a sickly little girl from a poor family. She's been doing her best to fulfill her dream of making books, but her plans have been foiled at every turn.But now Myne has a deal with Benno the merchant: With her friend Lutz's help, she will make a paper prototype that he can sell in his shop. In exchange, he will take
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Children and Fire

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The fourth novel in Ursula Hegi’s acclaimed Burgdorf cycle is “a thoughtful, sidelong approach to the worst moment in Germany’s history that invites us to understand how decent people come to collaborate with evil” (Kirkus Reviews).Children and Fire tells the story of one day that will forever transform the lives of the people in Burgdorf, Germany, the fictitious village by the river in Ursula ... Read more

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The fourth novel in Ursula Hegi’s acclaimed Burgdorf cycle is “a thoughtful, sidelong approach to the worst moment in Germany’s history that invites us to understand how decent people come to collaborate with evil” (Kirkus Reviews).Children and Fire tells the story of one day that will forever transform the lives of the people in Burgdorf, Germany, the fictitious village by the river in Ursula
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Berlin Alexanderplatz

by Alfred Doblin ...

Translated by Michael Hofmann ...

The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical ... Read more

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The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical
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Snowleg

by Nicholas Shakespeare ...

A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends decades convincing himself that he is not in love until one day, with Germany now reunited, he decides to go back and look for her. But who was she, how ... Read more

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A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends decades convincing himself that he is not in love until one day, with Germany now reunited, he decides to go back and look for her. But who was she, how
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Kairos

by Jenny Erpenbeck ...

Translated by Michael Hofmann ...

Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes—*“an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s)*WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURELONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSEAn epic storytel... ... Read more

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Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes—*“an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s)*WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURELONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSEAn epic storytel...
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Siblings

by Brigitte Reimann ...

Translated by Lucy Lee Jones ...

'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and divisions that make and ultimately break both' Lisa AppignanesiThe border between East and West Germany has closed.For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build a glorious, ... Read more

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'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and divisions that make and ultimately break both' Lisa AppignanesiThe border between East and West Germany has closed.For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build a glorious,
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Marzahn, Mon Amour

by Katja Oskamp ...

Translated by Jo Heinrich ...

WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2023. As heard on BBC Radio 4 ‘Book at Bedtime’, August 2022 Shortlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the TA First Translation Prize. Spiegel bestseller, selected for Berlin Reads One Book 2021. Over 180,000 copies sold worldwide. A woman approaching the ‘invisible years’ of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2023. As heard on BBC Radio 4 ‘Book at Bedtime’, August 2022 Shortlisted for The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the TA First Translation Prize. Spiegel bestseller, selected for Berlin Reads One Book 2021. Over 180,000 copies sold worldwide. A woman approaching the ‘invisible years’ of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a
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The Parent Trap

by Erich Kästner ...

Illustrated by Walter Trier ...

Series series Pushkin Children's Classics
**The book behind the world-famous film — in a new translation by Anthea Bell.Gorgeous cover and package design presents a perfect collectible classics library for young readers.**Luise has ringlets. Lottie has braids. Apart from that they look exactly the same.But they are sure that they have never set eyes on each other in their lives.When the two girls meet at a summer camp and discover the ... Read more

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**The book behind the world-famous film — in a new translation by Anthea Bell.Gorgeous cover and package design presents a perfect collectible classics library for young readers.**Luise has ringlets. Lottie has braids. Apart from that they look exactly the same.But they are sure that they have never set eyes on each other in their lives.When the two girls meet at a summer camp and discover the
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The Wish Child

by Catherine Chidgey ...

Two ordinary German children are drawn into the Nazi myth of a perfect nation, from the author of The Book of Guilt'A wonderful new talent' Nick HornbyGermany, 1939. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Both children watch as their parents become immersed in the ... Read more

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Two ordinary German children are drawn into the Nazi myth of a perfect nation, from the author of The Book of Guilt'A wonderful new talent' Nick HornbyGermany, 1939. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Both children watch as their parents become immersed in the
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