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Seasonal Time Change - Selected Poems by Michael Krüger; Joseph Given (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\German List Ser.
Our twice-yearly daylight savings holiday, in which we faithfully, collectively adjust our clocks, is purely human tampering with the calendar. Yet, it is a practice that is embedded in nature's principles, even as we exact more sunlight for ourselves in an over-organized, technological world. Mirroring ...Show more
The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul by Alexander Kluge; Alexander Booth (Translator)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\German List Ser.
A highly engaging exploration of existential questions, written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul confronts the reader with questions of existential meaning, questions rendered all the more potent by the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic: ...Show more
The Dark Ship by Sherko Fatah; Martin Chalmers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's The Dark Ship, we experience an extraordinary new voice in fiction, which tells the story of the kind of trauma a ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out--if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr rel ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
$44.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: The\German List Ser.
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out--if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr rel ...Show more
The Great Fall by Peter Handke; Krishna Winston (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind." The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center. He is scheduled to receive a presti ...Show more
The Jew Car by Franz Fühmann; Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Originally published in 1962, Franz Fühmann's autobiographical story cycle The Jew Car is a classic of German short fiction and an unparalleled examination of the psychology of National Socialism. Each story presents a snapshot of a personal and historical turning point in the life of the narrator, beg ...Show more
The Silences of Hammerstein by Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
The Silences of Hammerstein, the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences of real-life German General Kurt von Hammerstein and ...Show more
The Village Indian by Abbas Khider; Donal McLaughlin (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author's experiences as a political prisoner and years as a refugee. Our hero Rasul Hamid describes the eight different ways that he fled his home in Iraq and the eight different ways he has failed to fin ...Show more
Thick of It by Ulrike Almut Sandig; Karen Leeder (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\German List Ser.
The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to "the center of the world" and navigates a "thicket" that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. Th ...Show more
Three Plays - Rechnitz, the Merchant's Contracts, Charges (the Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek; Gitta Honegger (Translator)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: The\German List Ser.
For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contemporary literature was finally recognized in 2004 with the ...Show more
Three Plays - Three Plays: Philocletes, the Horatian, Mauser by Heiner Müller; Nathaniel McBride (Translator)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: The\German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
Despite being widely acknowledged as one of the most important German dramatists since Bertolt Brecht, Heiner Müller (1929-95) still remains relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This collection of plays aims to change that, presenting new translations and opening up his work to a larger au ...Show more