The Oppermanns

6 best books like The Oppermanns (Lion Feuchtwanger): Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, Mephisto, Beware of Pity, The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe, Herkunft

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

Author	Jim Holt
ISBN	0871404095

"Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?" remains the darkest and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt now enters this fractious debate with his lively and deeply informed narrative...

Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

Author	Daniel Goleman
ISBN	0553803522

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science,...

Mephisto

Author	Klaus Mann
ISBN	0140189181

Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik...

Beware of Pity

Author	Stefan Zweig
ISBN	1590172000

The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.

Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the...

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

Author

Joseph E. Stiglitz

In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the “eurocrisis.” It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency—the eurozone—have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have been in depression for years while the governing...

Herkunft

Author

Saša Stanišić

HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was danach kommt.

HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über meine Heimaten, in der Erinnerung und der Erfindung. Ein Buch über Sprache, Schwarzarbeit, die Stafette der Jugend und viele Sommer. Den Sommer,...