"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp". Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker in totalitarian Romania. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me" the notes say, with her name and address. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, she thinks over the events and people of her life under ...
With shocking and vivid detail, the journal of a woman living through the Russian occupation of Berlin in 1945 tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject and describes the common experience of millions.
For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
Thirty percent of Warsaw's population was Jewish in 1939, when the Nazis invaded and relegated the community to the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. Collected here, diary excerpts and letters of Jews forced to suffer under these circumstances attest to years of tragedy.
Germans flee the besieged city of Danzig in 1945. Poles driven out of eastern regions controlled by the Russians move into the homes hastily abandoned by their previous inhabitants. In an area of the city graced with beech trees and a stately cathedral, the stories of old and new residents intertwine: Hanemann, a German and a former professor of ...
Bernd Willenbrock is a former engineer who now, in the new Germany, is a used car salesman in Berlin. Most of his dealings are with Russians, who--he believes--are starting to turn on him. When several of his cars are stolen, his night watchman is beaten up, his house is broken into and an attempt made on his life, Willenbrock starts carrying a ...
A novel about the difficulties of loving in 1960s Berlin, before unification. Eduard is a molecular biologist; Theo is an East Berlin writer; Andre is a renowned composer. Together they engage in a scientific examination of the nature of love.
In "one of the most important German novels of recent years,"* a man, a town, and a country wrestle with fifty years of displacement and political upheaval Provincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of German refugees arrives from the east, Bernhard Haber's family among them. Life is hard enough--Bernhard's father has ...
This collection of Ida Fink's short fiction includes her celebrated story "The End," an account of two young lovers in Poland during the German invasion in 1938. In this and 20 other stories, Fink--a Holocaust survivor herself--explores the way the Nazi extermination of the Jews impinged on the lives of ordinary people, often young women.
"One day Pain appeared . . . (declared himself God) and upright Man was stricken in the back, and he was made to stoop, and neither could he claim his ancient place above the beasts in the field nor his time-honored position over women in the bed". Through the author's search for a cure for his back pain, millions of fellow sufferers will ...
This brief and poignant novel from Germany explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life. "The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt" by Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Buchner-Preis, Germany's highest literary honor, is finally available ...
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