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  • The Inspector Barlach Mysteries

    The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion

    by Friedrich Dürrenmatt ...
    Translated by Joel Agee ...
    This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds in which the distinction between crime and justice ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Wagner's Ring Motifs

    by Sven Friedrich, Dr. Gerhart K. Englert ...
    Narrated by Sir John Tomlinson ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 32 min

    This release lists the leitmotifs in Wagner's "Ring" and explains what they mean with the help of an expert commentary. The motifs are presented in the order in which they appear in the cycle. Wagner's music will be communicated in a simple and intelligible way, helping listeners to decode and understand the musico-dramatic language of the composers's mythical world. ... Read more

    $29.71 CAD

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    by Robert Seethaler ...
    Translated by Charlotte Collins ...
    From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Broken House

    Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece

    by Horst Krüger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
    'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary MantelTwenty years after the end of the war, Horst Krüger attempted to make sense of his childhood. He had grown up in a quiet Berlin suburb. Here, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Fatal Lies

    (Vienna Blood 3)

    by Frank Tallis ...
    Series Book 3 - Vienna Blood
    Vienna, 1903. In St. Florian's military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the City's famous woods, a young cadet is found dead - his body lacerated with razor wounds. Once again, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his friend - and disciple of Freud - Doctor Max Liebermann, to help him with the investigation.In the closed society of the school, power is everything - and suspicion ... Read more

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  • The Night in Lisbon

    A Novel

    by Erich Maria Remarque ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front.With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Dream Story

    by Arthur Schnitzler ...
    Translated by J.M.Q. Davies ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Love in Amsterdam

    A Novel

    by Nicolas Freeling ...
    Series series Van der Valk
    In this classic mystery, a Dutch police detective investigates a woman's murder with assistance from the man accused of killing her.A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman.It looks like a straightforward case—but police inspector Van der Valk is not ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Execution of Justice

    Translated by John E. Woods ...
    by Friedrich Duerrenmatt ...
    Series Book 22 - Pushkin Vertigo
    A captivating neo-noir classic from one of the masters of the genreA respected professor is dead—shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him?As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The End of Days

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Mephisto Waltz

    by Frank Tallis ...
    Vienna, 1904. The body of a man—still sitting in a chair—is discovered in an abandoned piano factory on the outskirts of the city. He has been shot dead but his face has been horribly disfigured with acid, making identification impossible. In front of the body are three chairs positioned conspicuously in a straight line. Who were the former occupants? Had they sat in judgement and pronounced a ... Read more

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  • Parallel Stories

    A Novel

    by Péter Nádas ...
    A New York Times Notable Book for 2011In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans—Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies—across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth century.Three ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD