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1	Storm of Steel more books like this by Professor Ernst Junger, Michael Hofmann (Translator) A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, "Storm of Steel" illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-aware, JA1/4nger exulted in the Great War, which he saw not just as a great national conflict ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $8.28! \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 more books like this by Willy Peter Reese, Stefan Schmitz (Editor), Michael Hofmann (Translator) Reese was 20 when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of World War II, he recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an illuminating perspective. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $4.87! \| first editions
3	The Tale of the 1002nd Night more books like this by Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann (Translator) This fanciful novel, a tribute to Roth's beloved Vienna, was first published in 1939, and is based on an incident in 1873 when the Shah of Persia was visiting Europe. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Payback more books like this by Gert Ledig, Michael Hofmann (Introduction by), Shaun Whiteside (Translator) During the course of an hour in July 1944, bombers fly over an unnamed German city, while down below, civilians live out their last days. First published in 1956, and now available in English for the first time, "Payback" paints a savage and unflinching picture of the realities of warfare for ordinary men and women. see all copies from $8.40! new only from $11.42! \| SVS
5	The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters more books like this by Malcolm Lowry, Michael Hofmann (Editor) A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Notorious for a misspent life full of binges, blackouts, and unimaginable bad luck, Malcolm Lowry managed, against every odd, to complete and publish two novels, one of them, "Under the Volcano," an indisputable masterpiece. At the time of his death in 1957, Lowry also left behind a great deal of uncollected and ... see all copies from $6.75! new only from $16.68! \| SVS
6	The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II more books like this by Gert Ledig, Michael Hofmann (Translator) 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages from headquarters to the front, scrambles ... see all copies from $3.82! new only from $8.80! \| SVS
7	The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth more books like this by Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Seventeen stories by Joseph Roth (1894-1939), the author of THE RADETSKY MARCH. Works include "Station Fallmerayer," "The Triumph of Beauty," and "The Leviathan." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.08! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Perfect American by Peter Stephan Jungk, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Based on the life of Walt Disney, this acerbic novel begins in 1966, with Disney's return to his home town in Missouri, and looks skeptically at his career accomplishments. The author emphasizes the fact that Disney himself was far from a creative genius, and that many of his achievements were the work of others. The novel concentrates on one such ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
9	Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems more books like this by Durs Grunbein, Michael Hofmann (Translator) The first English translation of Germany's leading contemporary poet. ...what is the whole surreal jokeshop of terrors compared to the infinitely chance little tricks of a poem. --from "MonoLogical Poem #1" Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grunbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, ... see all copies from $3.81! new only from $7.16! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared more books like this by Franz Kafka, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Kafka's first novel is the picaresque comic tale of a young man who disgraces himself in a sexual fiasco and is sent away to Amerika by his embarrassed parents--a fantastical Amerika that existed only in Kafka's imagination. see all copies from $6.20! new only from $7.72! \| SVS
11 view cover	On a Day Like This more books like this by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (Translator) On a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor's visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of him-but who can tell if it is homesickness or wanderlust; a deathwish or a fresh lease on life? Andreas leaves everything behind-sells his Paris apartment, cuts off all social ties, quits his teaching ... see all copies from $2.94! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	On Film more books like this by Wim Wenders, Michael Hofmann (Translator) A volume that combines three influential works on the cinema by Wim Wenders, one of the major international filmmakers of our time Wim Wenders's body of work is among the most extraordinary in modern cinema. It includes such films as "Paris, Texas"; "Wings of Desire"; "Buena Vista Social Club"; and "The Million Dollar Hotel," Fortunately, his ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $23.30! \| first editions
13	The cow more books like this by Beat Sterchi see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Report from a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939 more books like this by Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann (Translator), Katharina Ochse (Selected by) Joseph Roth (1894-1939), the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925. Translated and collected together here for the first time in English, the exhilarating pieces in this evocative collection distill the wisdom of a lost generation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.61! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Hothouse more books like this by Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Originally published in 1953 in Germany, THE HOTHOUSE tells the story of the last days of a Bundestag member who is tortured by what he sees as the materialistic values and general amorality of postwar Germany. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.18! \| first editions
16 view cover	After Ovid: New Metamorphoses more books like this by Michael Hofmann Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics of life itself. The British poets Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun have invited more than forty ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.94! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl more books like this by Gert Hofmann, Michael Hofmann (Foreword by) From dross to gold, an enchanting tale of love is spun. Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein... all praised the writings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), a mathematician, physicist and astronomer by profession, and an aphorist and satirist on the sly. In Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl , ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.21! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Unformed Landscape by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Kathrine is a young Norwegian woman living in a tiny town on a fjord. When her difficulties with her cold and brutal husband increase, she flees to Paris, where she has a passionate affair that awakens her to what she never knew she could have. Peter Stamm has written a quietly lovely little novel about self-discovery--a story that seems old ... see all copies from $4.39! new only from $8.37! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Approximately Nowhere: Poems more books like this by Michael Hofmann The poems in Michael Hofmann's second American (his fourth British) collection dwell on failed love affairs and his ambivalence about his father's death. Mixing high-flown language with common diction, blending brief lyrical passages with more drawn-out discursive ones, Hofmann is often harshly critical of himself in these often intimate poems. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.04! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Land of Green Plumsho Swallowed a Trout more books like this by Herta Muller, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Herta Muller's first work to be translated into English, THE LAND OF GREEN PLUMS tells the story of a young woman and her friends in Ceausescu's Rumania, who travel from the provinces in search of better prospects in the city. But things are no better there. The narrator watches while totalitarianism infiltrates the lives of her friends, and her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Frost more books like this by Professor Thomas Bernhard, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, "Frost" is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. "Frost" follows an unnamed young Austrian who ... see all copies from $2.06! new only from $8.26! \| SVS
22 view cover	A Sad Affair more books like this by Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Friedrich, a student who works in a factory, is madly, hopelessly in love with Sibylle, a cabaret singer. This satirical novel is about his pursuit of her, first from Germany to Zurich, then to Italy, as his desire for Sibylle, and Sibylle's desire to succeed in her profession, are often at cross-purposes. A SAD AFFAIR was banned in Germany when ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology more books like this by Michael Hofmann (Editor) This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, and endlessly interesting collection. Here we find poetry as a living counter-force to socio ... see all copies from $5.60! new only from $5.60! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Tigor more books like this by Peter Stephan Jungk, Michael Hofmann (Translator) A mathematician returns to the city of his birth for a conference where his life's work is disproved. His resulting nervous collapse sets him off on a divine misadventure. From the author of "The Perfect American (2004). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	In Strange Gardens and Other Stories more books like this by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (Translator) With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life. They are bankers, students, mothers, or retirees. They live in New York City or somewhere in Switzerland, they work in London or Riga, they cross paths in a Fado bar in Lisbon. They breathe the banal routine of daily life. It is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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