Two fathers with two daughters: Martin, professor of German, writes but is studying Earth Sciences at MIT; Tariq, a doctor in Baghdad and Muna, is studying the archaeology of a region that is seen a
“Powerful inquiries spurred by photos—history made flesh, the untold lives of the mostly forgotten.” —Kirkus Reviews“A missionary voice of human dignity.”—World Literature TodayErich Hackl, 2017 recip
Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light, by esteemed Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke,
Mike Mitchell has revised his translation and a new introduction has been added.'A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring the Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's mons
With characteristic literary reflection, award-winning author Hackl excavates three evocative personal histories: the improbable wedding at Dachau of resistance fighter Gisela Tschofenig; Wilhelm Bras
This volume is a perfect companion for both the Meyrink scholar and the first-time Meyrink reader, containing as it does the whole gamut of Meyrink's writing from his love of the bizarre, the grotesq
Till Day You Do Part---an answer to Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape? An echo, rather ...'Handke's `echo' of Krapp's Last Tape is also a monologue---by the `she' of Beckett's play, the `unknown female' rec
Nadia and Susanne look uncannily alike, but one is seriously rich and the other destitute. When Nadia asks Susanne to spend the weekend with her husband, so that she can sneak off with a lover, how c
?Compelling, historical, poetical, sensitive, erotic?this wonderful novel is all this and much more.??Express Alexander von Brucken, a reclusive millionaire with an enigmatic past, invites an unnamed
Why must the festive dinner in the Hirschen Inn be interrupted? A murder puts an end to the wedding celebration of Studer's daughter. A man is found with a sharpened bicycle spoke embedded in his back
Anna, who died of a gastric influenza, left behind handkerchiefs with traces of arsenic. Then, James Farny was found murdered, with a single pistol shot to the heart and no hole in his clothing. Did t
There are three loves in the life of Joris Borluut, the town carillonneur of Bruges. He marries the fiery Barbara, whose dark beauty is a reminder of Belgium's Spanish heritage. Repelled by her harsh
When Anton L. wakes up one morning and gradually discovers that he is the only person left in the world, he accepts the situation with greater sang froid than most would. Survival presents no great pr
When two women are 'accidently' killed by gas leaks, Sergeant Studer investigates the thinly disguised double murder in Bern and Basel. The trail leads to a geologist dead from a tropical fever in a M
In the 1980s the bank robber Johann Rettenberger was the most wanted criminal in Austria. Known as Pumpgun Ronnie because of the weapon he used and the Ronald Reagan mask he wore for his robberies, he
Reuben Hecht has been stuck at the age of 17 since he ran away to the Ivory Coast twenty years ago. His mother regularly beats him with a wooden spoon to make him complete his pictorial assignments fo
Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural wor
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany’s greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of whichTumult is an autobiographical record. Derived from old
'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate'Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The
Mary Guthrie, a student of English at Edinburgh University becomes fascinated by the fantastical 17th century writer, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and sets out to write a thesis on him. She pursues
This entertaining anthology delivers great reading and an overview of German-language science fiction, including works by the "German father of science fiction" Kurd Lasswitz, the Austrian writer Lud
EXCERPT APPEARING IN HARPER'S, NOVEMBER 2018Asmaa al-Ghoul is a Palestinian journalist who grew up in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Her book offers a rare view of a young woman coming into her own p
EXCERPT APPEARING IN HARPER'S, NOVEMBER 2018Asmaa al-Ghoul is a Palestinian journalist who grew up in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Her book offers a rare view of a young woman coming into her own p
