Cultural Region/Germany
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Stones from the River
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times–“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defi
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Hegi, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 068484477X
- Language: English
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Narcissus and Goldmund
$21.00 Add to cartHermann Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted hims
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421672
- Language: English
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Breathturn into Timestead
$48.99 Add to cart2015 National Translation Award Winner in Poetry
Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times- Author: Celan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0374608032
- Language: English
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Fatherland
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling classic of alternate history, a murder mystery set in a world where the Nazis won World War II–for fans of The Plot Against America and The Man in the High Castle
Berl- Series: Mortalis
- Author: Harris, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 812977211
- Language: English
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The Quest for Christa T.
$19.00 Add to cartWhen The Quest for Christa T. was first published in East Germany ten years ago, there was an immediate storm: bookshops in East Berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well-known customers
- Author: Wolf, Christa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: April 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0374515344
- Language: English
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Three Streets
$17.95 Add to cartThe always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Kollwitzstrasse,” as the narrator muses on former East Berlin’s new bourgeois health food stores, so po… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229300
- Language: English
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Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
$20.00 Add to cartIn this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of Troy, but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. W
- Author: Wolf, Christa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374519048
- Language: English
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Yule-Tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions, From the Swedish, Danish, and German
$24.95 Add to cartThis collection of ancient Scandinavian tales takes you on a journey to fight werewolves, rescue the princess on the glass mountain, and explore “the beautiful palace east of the sun and north of the
- Author: Thorpe, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1396318232
- Language: English
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The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka
$41.58 Add to cartA splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographer
In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aph- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0691205922
- Language: English
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The Mayfair Bookshop: A Novel of Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Happiness
$16.99 Add to cartOne of Hasty Booklist’s Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels!
USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford–one of 1930s London’s
- Author: Knight, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0063070588
- Language: English
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Literature and Politics: Selected Writings
$35.00 Add to cartLiterature and Politics presents Robert Musil’s writings on the relationship between literature and politics from World War I through World War II and elucidates his personal struggle to bear witness
- Author: Musil, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1940625548
- Language: English
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Kafka: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFranz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known bei… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Robertson, Ritchie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0192804553
- Language: English
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The Common Reader
$19.99 Add to cartWoolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with a… [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 015602778X
- Language: English
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Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
$19.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK!
Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger.
SUMMER LIGHT AND THEN COMES THE NIGHT is a profound and playful masterwork from one of Iceland’s most beloved author
- Author: Stefansson, Jon Kalman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0063136481
- Language: English
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Enemies, a Love Story
$21.99 Add to cartAlmost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; an
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374515220
- Language: English
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Hausgeister!: Household Spirits of German Folklore: Household Spirits of German Folklore
$34.95 Read more“Hausgeister! is as creepy as it is beautiful. Informative and fascinating, I thoroughly enjoyed this little gem.” — BROM
Enter the world of ancient Germany where household spirits once held sway an
- Series: Wool of Bat
- Author: Schäfer, Florian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1777791812
- Language: English
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Identitti
$27.00 Read more“Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out.”
Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known bl
–Olivia Craighead, The New York Times- Author: Sanyal, Mithu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601298
- Language: English
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Sanditon
$5.95 Add to cart‘no person could be really well . . . without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’
In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explor- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198840837
- Language: English
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To Catch a King
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author Tom Clancy called “the master” In war-torn Lisbon, a bartender and a nightclub singer are caught up in a treacherous Nazi plot. As the Nazi war machine prepa… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 22 2010
- ISBN10: 1453200193
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice: Large Print
$19.99 Add to cartJane Austen’s most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. Now in large print.
Mrs Bennet has five daughters to marry. Not easy when they have a small dowry, and suitor
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 2383040975
- Language: English
