Patrick Roth has been working as a Los Angeles-based film journalist and ex-pat author of German novels and plays for three decades. Krishna Winston, professor of German studies and chair of the German Studies Department at Wesleyan University, is the principal English-language translator for the works of the Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass, she also translated Peter Handke’s Don Juan.

“What stories can the little people tell? That seems to be the question German author Roth hopes to answer with this story collection set in a Los Angeles apartment building. . . . For those who love basking in rambling tales, and who are fascinated by Hollywood, there is plenty here to love.”

• 1. The Man at Noah’s Window2. Solar Eclipse3. Rider on the Storm4. The Woman in the Sea of Stars

Patrick Roth has been working as a Los Angeles-based film journalist and ex-pat author of German novels and plays for three decades. Krishna Winston, professor of German studies and chair of the German Studies Department at Wesleyan University, is the principal English-language translator for the works of the Nobel Prize-winning German author Günter Grass, she also translated Peter Handke’s Don Juan.

“What stories can the little people tell? That seems to be the question German author Roth hopes to answer with this story collection set in a Los Angeles apartment building. . . . For those who love basking in rambling tales, and who are fascinated by Hollywood, there is plenty here to love.”

• 1. The Man at Noah’s Window2. Solar Eclipse3. Rider on the Storm4. The Woman in the Sea of Stars