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Anarchy′s Brief Summer – The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
Av Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Mike Mitchell
Häftad, 2023
259 kr
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A unique portrait of a revolutionary movement that is largely unknown outside Spain.Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in the political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural working class, …
Fly Away, Pigeon
Av Melinda Nadj Abonji, Tess Lewis
Häftad, 2022
151 kr
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Tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland.In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative strands, recounting the history of three generations of the Kocsis …
Lyric Novella
Av Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Lucy Renner Jones m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
138 kr
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Schwarzenbach’s clear, psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life.Annemarie Schwarzenbach—journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler—has become a European cult figure for bohemian free spirits since the …
Cox – or, The Course of Time
Av Christoph Ransmayr, Simon Pare
Häftad, 2022
205 kr
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Richly imagined and recounted in vivid prose of extraordinary beauty, this book is a stunning illustration of Ransmayr’s talent for imbuing a captivating tale with intense metaphorical, indeed metaphysical force.The world’s most powerful man, Qiánlóng, emperor of China, invites the famous …
At the Burning Abyss – Experiencing the Georg Trakl Poem
Av Franz Fühmann, Isabel Fargo Cole
Häftad, 2022
151 kr
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Franz Fühmann’s magnum opus.At the Burning Abyss is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry.Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, …
Panopticon
Av Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Tess Lewis
Häftad, 2022
138 kr
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A collection of daring short essays on topical themes, including politics, economics, religion, society.Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection not from Jeremy Bentham’s famous prison but from a mid-1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. “There,” …
Tumult
Av Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Mike Mitchell
Häftad, 2022
139 kr
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A collection of writings based on Enzensberger’s personal experience as a left-wing sympathizer during the 1960s. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, widely regarded as Germany’s greatest living poet, was already well known in the 1960s, the tempestuous decade of which Tumult is an autobiographical record. …
Blue Soda Siphon
Av Urs Widmer, Donal Mclaughlin
Häftad, 2022
112 kr
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A magnificent example of Widmer’s characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination. In the wildly entertaining novel The Blue Soda Siphon, the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to …
Comedies
Av Robert Walser, Daniele Pantano m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
151 kr
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This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette.Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little-known work has been …
Shift Sleepers
Av Dorothee Elmiger, Megan Ewing
Häftad, 2023
215 kr
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A novel by a Swiss writer that features figures from all over Europe from different walks of life coming together in secret to talk through their experiences, hopes, and dreams.Somewhere deep in the European forest, they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, …
Against the World
Av Jan Brandt, Katy Derbyshire
Häftad, 2023
303 kr
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A big, ambitious, over-the-top masterpiece that was hailed an immediate classic upon first publication in German.Set in the East Friesia region of Germany in the mid-1970s, Against the World tells the story of Daniel Kuper, the nominal heir to a drugstore dynasty, and his struggle to free himself …
Starlite Terrace
Av Patrick Roth, Krishna Winston
Häftad, 2023
215 kr
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Dark stories of failed dreams and contemporary desperation in Los Angeles.In a rundown Los Angeles apartment building—the titular Starlite Terrace—Patrick Roth unfurls the tragic linked stories of Rex, Moss, Gary, and June, four neighbors, in a sort of burlesque of the Hollywood modern. In each of …
just sitting around here GRUESOMELY now
Av Friedricke Mayröcker, Rosalyn Theobald m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
175 kr
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Poetic prose meditations written in a lyrical stream-of-consciousness style by renowned Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.It is summer in this book, even if nature often does not hold to summer. The flowers either have tiny buds or have long since withered. It is summer in the book, asserts …
From the Berlin Journal
Av Max Frisch, Thomas Strässle m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
198 kr
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The daily journal of a giant of German literature, touching subjects ranging from everyday life to the political and social conditions in East Germany as viewed from West Berlin.Max Frisch (1911–91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in …
Bad Words – Selected Short Prose
Av Ilse Aichinger, Uljana Wolf m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
138 kr
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A moving work of fiction from one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature.Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many …
