The Deputy

5 best books like The Deputy (Rolf Hochhuth): This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Embers, Peak, Irisches Tagebuch, The Festival of Insignificance

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Author	Tadeusz Borowski
ISBN	0140186247

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference...

Embers

Author	Sándor Márai
ISBN	0375707425

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.

In a secluded woodland castle...

Peak

Author	Roland Smith
ISBN	0152024174

The only thing you’ll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. – Peak Marcello

After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention...

Irisches Tagebuch

Author	Heinrich Böll
ISBN	3423000015

Als die "schönste Liebeserklärung an ein Land" wird das "Irische Tagebuch" von Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) oft bezeichnet. Das ist es in der Tat - und ist doch weit mehr. Anders als der Verliebte, dessen Blick sich nur auf Farbenfrohes, Sonnenbeschienenes richtet und Dunkel nicht wahrnimmt, braucht...

The Festival of Insignificance

Author	Milan Kundera
ISBN	0062356895

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel—the culmination of his life's work.

Casting light on the most serious of problems, and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated...