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Jakob von Gunten Walser, Robert (מגרמנית: אילנה המרמן)
Jakob von Gunten arrives at the Benjamenta Institute with one goal: to rid himself of his noble background and become a nobody. Just a nobody, one big zero, a dot of human existence, free of any ...
Stanice tajga Hůlová, Petra
To begin with, I have to admit that I found the photo on this book a bit confusing. The word “Taiga” in the title of Petra Hůlová’s novel is written with a small “t” (in Czech, only ...
Ungefähre Landschaft Stamm, Peter
Ungefähre Landschaft ( Unformed Landscape , translated by Michael Hofmann in 2005) was Swiss writer Peter Stamm’s second novel. First published in 2001 it tells the fascinating story of a ...
Hundert Tage Bärfuss, Lukas
English version is coming Seit einigen Jahren brilliert Lukas Bärfuss als Theaterautor auf Bühnen in aller Welt. „Hundert Tage“ markiert sein Debüt als Romanautor. Mitreissend erzählt er ...
Sez Ner Camenisch, Arno
English version is coming soon In german: Es ist schön in den Bergen, schwärmen die Touristen, die in roten Socken an der Alphütte vorbei wandern und den Senn davor mit ihrer Kamera ...
Paloma Mayröcker, Friederike
Friederike Mayröcker’s latest book publication, auspiciously entitled Paloma , comprises 99 letters to an addressee who is not known by name. However, the recipient, addressed as 'Dear ...
Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy) Rankov, Pavol
Pavol Rankov is one of the most successful contemporary Slovak prose writers. He has published three books of psychological tales with magical plots and surprise endings, of which several have ...
Longshore Drift Gillece, Karen
Karen Gillece is a writer of immense promise, whose work has been marked by great artistic development in a relatively short period of time. Her novels display insight into the realms of ...
LÓD Dukaj, Jacek
Altering history: There was no Great War. In 1924, Poland is still under the reign of Russia. Benedykt Gierosławski, talented mathematician, but also compulsive gambler has been sent to the ...
I skuggan av ett brott Henschen, Helena
Helena Henschen's novel I skuggan av ett brott ( The Shadow of a Crime , 2004) is an outstanding debut about a family tragedy. Henschen skillfully brings together fact and fiction in a ...
Innsirkling Tiller, Carl Frode
With his three novels The Slope (2001), Minor Characters (2003) and Encirclement (2007), Carl Frode Tiller has established himself among the new generation of Norwegian writers as one of the ...
Kommunista Monte Cristo Szécsi, Noémi
Besides being a historical novel and a saga of a family, Kommunista Monte Cristo ( Communist Monte Cristo ), published in 2006, is an artistic interpretation of the history of communist idea in ...
Kvėpavimas į marmurą Černiauskaitė, Laura Sintija
Writing is Breathing None of the words can be deleted in a work of good prose, just like in good poetry. I really appreciate authors who realize and acknowledge this maxim. Unfortunately, ...
A Breathless Hush in the Close Morgan, Ann
A Breathless Hush in the Close is Ann Morgan’s first novel and takes its title from Henry Newbolt’s well-known late nineteenth century poem Vitaï Lampada. The lines 'Play up! Play up! and ...
Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus und stech dich damit tot. Winkler, Josef
Anthemic Prose Since Natura morta (2001), Roppongi (2007) and certainly since his new anthemic prose work, no-one in Austrian literature has been able to hold a candle to Büchner Prize winner ...
Hanna und ich Winkler, Andrea
"You know what the worst of all bug-eyed things is: letters packed in boxes, lying lie there on the bottom shelf, simply the fact that they don’t just vanish into thin air." Andrea Winkler ...
(Krieg und Welt) Waterhouse, Peter
Childhood in Malaysia, adolescence in Germany during the period of the Cold War. His father, a British secret agent, is at home in many languages, yet relates nothing in any of them. He ...
An den Mond Schutting, Julian
“Yes, well… what our kind, when poet- / icising away, understands by poems –“br /> In the thin volume An den Mond (‘To the Moon’), Julian Schutting collects together “nature ...
Schaumschluchten Balàka , Bettina
Bettina Balàka, who was born in 1966, is a very versatile authoress. She writes novels, short stories, poems, plays, radio plays and essays and has received many literary prizes. In ...
Don Juan de la Mancha oder Die Erziehung der Lust Menasse, Robert
Don Juan is over the hill. All that he can now manage to do is look back at his life. Nathan has no desire anymore. And for the always groaning Viennese newspaper editor that is anything but a ...
Luciferin Rainer, Angelika
The title of this first book, which is extraordinary both as far as its content and its language are concerned, derives from the fluorescent substance of glowworms. The short protagonist Lucy ...
Ruhm Kehlmann, Daniel
Ruhm (‘Fame’) is the laconic title of the new book by best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann. Its subtitle proclaims it to be 'A Novel in Nine Stories' and indeed the individual stories are ...
Alle sieben Wellen Glattauer, Daniel
With readers having refused to accept the open ending of Gut gegen Nordwind (‘Good against the North Wind’) for three years, Daniel Glattauer has finally given Leo and Emmi a second chance: ...
Kaltschweißattacken Falkner, Michaela
I would like to lie on the edge of the world... Love is the continuation of war by other means, writes Elfriede Jelinek. “There is always violence here. There is always fighting here. It ...
Neid Jelinek, Elfriede
"Neid" is the title of the new novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It is a “private novel”, which can only be read on the author’s homepage, and therefore does not participate in ...
