Lisa Fittko's gripping memoir of the antifascist resistance in Germany opens with Hitler's ascension to power in January 1933. It is a illuminating historical document and remarkable testament of personal strength an courage.
A man's life was spared 35 years ago during World War II, when a priest voluntarily took his place before a military firing squad. Now, when the incident is revealed, he finds himself bombarded with questions from journalists and others about the event. Barbara Konig's delicately ironic novel reveals what happens when the "beneficiary" is forced ...
The writings of Botho Strauss examine the tension between the individual and society in the anonymity of the contemporary world. A theater director, playwright, and writer, Strauss broke with Berlin's leftist intellectual milieu in the late 1970s and turned to more personal topics; the result, and his response, inform The Young Man, a provocative ...
This allegorical novel from Germany (first published in 1965) is about a woman named Nadine, who has a new love interest. She is given advice by various friends, all of whom turn out to be aspects of Nadine herself.
An Austrian Jew, in Jerusalem to do research into her family history, begins a love affair with a Palestinian man. After a bus full of Jews is torn apart by a bomb, she begins to wonder if she is an unwitting accomplice to a Palestinian nationalist plot.
"Brutt, or The Sighing Gardens" is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer's love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer - a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper articles, literature, and private correspondence. The process of aging and the process of writing ...
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