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  • the arimasen dialogues: A Philosophical Novel

    Beyond Space, Beyond Time, Beyond

    by Michael Hoffman ...
    Some books you read. A few read you back.The Arimasen Dialogues belongs firmly to that second, stranger category.Welcome to Arimasen. The word is Japanese for there is not, and the place is quite like Earth in most respects, save for one: it lies beyond Space, Time, and Matter. Coherence has quietly decamped. The philosophers approve, the politicians do not. Whether Arimasen is a planet, a ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America

    by Michael Hoffman ...
    They Were White and They Were Slaves is a thoroughly researched challenge to the conventional historiography of colonial and industrial labor, a stunning journey into a hidden epoch, the slave trade of Whites, hundreds of thousands of whom were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death in the American colonies and during the Industrial Revolution. This is a chronicle that has never been ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Death in Rome

    by Wolfgang Koeppen ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    “In a brilliant translation of this great German novel, Michael Hofmann has illuminated a dark corner of recent European history. A forgotten masterpiece.”—Evening StandardDeath in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family—a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer, and a government administrator—reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Hothouse

    by Wolfgang Koeppen ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    On the anniversary of Wolfgang Koeppen’s 120th year, the two remaining works in his postwar trilogy in Michael Hofmann’s spectacular translationThe Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after World War II. Following his self-imposed exile during the war, Keetenheuve returns to the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A Stranger to Myself

    The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941–44

    by Willy Peter Reese ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II.Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead.Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • arimasen

    by Michael Hoffman ...
    "Is Arimasen a nation, then?""As to what Arimasen is and is not... oh, Ephraim, did you but know what a subject you... unwittingly, in all innocence... oh, children, how I love your bright, shining faces, your bright, shining eyes! Is Arimasen a nation? No. Arimasen is not a nation. Nor a planet. Nor a city.""A state of mind, then!""Perhaps, Umeboshi, it is that. Perhaps. I said not a planet. And ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pigeons on the Grass

    by Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann ...
    Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael HofmannPigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Notes from Führer HQ

    by Felix Hartlaub ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    Fascinating, eerily poetic dispatches from inside Hitler’s war machine, translated into English for the first time, from a mysterious and tragic figure in German literature.Felix Hartlaub is one of the most enigmatic figures of 20th-century German literature. As a young writer of blazing promise, he went missing in the final days of the Second World War, leaving behind diaries, notes, and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • The Future of Truth

    by Werner Herzog ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2025 by BloombergFrom legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our “post-truth” era?**For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Love Poems, Inspirational Poems & More!

    by Michael Hoffman ...
    Michael Hoffman started writing poetry when he was forty-five. He kept his mind busy while in prison for the six years that he was there. He turned his life over to God, and he started writing poetry in many different themes, writing for his children to their mother during a fall on relationship.He was the one who had to change his life around. No one else could force him to change, but it had to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Faith in Numbers

    Religion, Sectarianism, and Democracy

    by Michael Hoffman ...
    Why does religion sometimes increase support for democracy and sometimes do just the opposite? In Faith in Numbers, political scientist Michael Hoffman presents a theory of religion, group interest, and democracy. Focusing on communal religion, he demonstrates that the effect of communal prayer on support for democracy depends on the interests of the religious group in question. For members of ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • 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

    $30.99 CAD