Das Muschelessen

Author	Marianne Fritz
ISBN	0989760774

The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948–2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel—awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978—she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called...

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Jenny Erpenbeck

A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck’s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist...

Author	Matthias Politycki
ISBN	0956284035

Germany's master of wit and irony now for the first time in English.

Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke, Hinrich goes through her papers, only to discover a totally...

Author	Véronique Olmi
ISBN	0956284027

A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate, and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from an uncaring and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys.

Beside the Sea is a haunting and thought-provoking...

Author	Maria Barbal
ISBN	0956284019

Peirene simply fell in love with the narrative voice of this beautiful love story. A voice totally free of anger and bitterness, a voice of someone who just tried to ride the waves to her best ability. It's a calming and rare voice in these times of recessionary gloom.

Of course, a voice needs substance....

Author	Volker Weidermann
ISBN	3462046004

Ein belgischer Badeort mit Geschichte und Glanz: Hier kommen sie alle noch einmal zusammen, die im Deutschland der Nationalsozialisten keine Heimat mehr haben. Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Irmgard Keun, Kisch und Toller, Koestler und Kesten, die verbotenen Dichter. Sonne, Meer, Getränke – es...

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Wolfgang Borchert

I'd never heard of Wolfgang Borchert until about a week before Christmas when a European Couple in their twenties came into the store and were asking for books by Ingeborg Bachmann, Max Frisch and a couple of other authors that I like and who are sort of obscure. They then asked for The Man Outside, a book...