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It All Tastes of Farewell
Continuing where Reimann's earlier book of diaries, I Have No Regrets, left off, in 1964, this volume is a compelling and frank account of one woman’s life and loves in 1960s East …
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The first English translation of a major work of postwar German poetry. Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) was a member of the Gruppe 47 writers’ group, which sought to …
Killing Happiness
German author Friedrich Ani combines deep sorrow, human darkness, and breath-taking tension in his latest crime novel. Happiness is extinguished completely one cold November night …
The Beloved of the Dawn
Four classical Greek myths retold with unexpected twists by an East German dissident. Franz Fühmann’s subversive retellings of four Greek legends were first published in East …
For the Dying Calves
Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs Grünbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet …
Monsters Like Us
A novel of two young friends growing up on divergent paths in the last days of Communist East Germany. What is it like to be young and broken in a country that is on the brink of …
Flowers for Otello
A powerful performance text that illuminates incidents of anti-immigrant violence in contemporary Germany. Between 1998 and 2007 a series of killings in Germany, disdainfully …
Gone But Not Forgotten
One of Germany’s greatest living writers offers up an analysis (and samples) of his failed projects. “My dear fellow artists, whether writers, actors, painters, film-makers, …