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  Zdenka Becker

  My Father’s Toughest Case

  Every Saturday she calls at her father’s house, where he is wheelchair-bound and looked after by carers. He spends most of his time lost in memories of the past; remembering his wife – a ... More about this title

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  Lars Gustafsson, Agneta Blomqvist

  The Smile of the Midnight Sun

  Gustafsson and Blomqvist take the reader from Sweden’s own “deep south” all the way up to Norrland, from the Scanian farmers to the Lapps. But the authors concentrate on the places they ... More about this title

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  Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi

  At Home in the World

  May 1945: the Prague Uprising puts an end to the German occupation, and Hitler’s war is over. Thirteen-year-old Barbara stows away her most cherished keepsakes – a pocketknife and a woollen ... More about this title

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  Christian David

  The Maiden’s Eye

  The fear that gripped her froze her blood. Lena tried to take refuge in her flat, but in vain. The figure in black leather drew nearer…
  
  A young woman is attacked and brutally ... More about this title

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  Rena Dumont

  In Search of Paradise

  Lenka fantasises endlessly about the West. She’s sick of her buttoned-down, small-town existence in Bohemia; she wants to be an actress, wear proper western designer jeans and stop having to ... More about this title

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  René Freund

  Love Among Fishes

  Fred Firneis, a sensationally successful and widely-read poet, is burnt out after too many alcohol-saturated years on the frontline of literature. His publisher, Susanne Beckmann, runs her ... More about this title

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  Wilhelm Genazino

  Tarzan on the Main

  “Most people who know me,” writes Wilhelm Genazino, “are surprised I live in Frankfurt.” But why should they be? Probably because everyone assumes “Frankfurt is ugly, sordid, squalid, ... More about this title

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  Eveline Hasler

  The Last Boat Out

  Varian Fry’s dangerous mission
  By the time Fry arrives in Marseille in August 1940, the German troops have already occupied most of France. His mission is to facilitate passage to America for 200 persecuted artists on behalf ... More about this title

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  Peter Schössow, Heinrich Heine

  Poor Peter

  As the audience pours into the theatre, the actors are getting ready for the show backstage. The curtain rises andthe story of how poor Peter fails to win Greta’s heart begins. It’s all very ... More about this title

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  Veit Heinichen

  In His Own Shadow

  Laurenti’s Sunday lie-in is rudely interrupted by an early morning phone call: a light aircraft has exploded over a small village in the Karst region near Trieste. Its pilot, Franz Xaver ... More about this title

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  Jean Paul

  Eternity Enshrined in Black and White

  Letters
  “Letters are just thinner books,” Jean Paul once said, and that certainly holds true in his case. His love letters – to Charlotte von Kalb, Emilie von Berlepsch, Caroline von Feuchtersleben ... More about this title

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  Reinhard Jirgl

  Deserted Earth

  The day has come when the damage mankind has wreaked on Earth reaches a point exceeding even our wildest imaginings. Our weary old planet has become too small for the appetites of the powers that ... More about this title

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  Antje Vollmer, Lars-Broder Keil

  Stauffenberg’s Associates

  The Story of the Unknown Conspirators
  The assassination attempt on Hitler that took place on the 20th of July 1944 is most prominently linked with the name of Stauffenberg. However, there were many others involved in the conspiracy ... More about this title

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  Florian Kessler

  There’s Strength in Numbers

  State-of-the-art Protest and Demonstration
  30 percent of German voters have participated in a demonstration at least once a year since 2008 – and the trend is still rising. Quite clearly, peaceful protest is bringing about profound ... More about this title

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  Florian Klinger

  Theory of Form

  Gerhard Richter and Art in an Age of Pragmatism
  Klinger’s study focuses principally on the analysis of form, production methods and the effect of structure in Gerhard Richter’s eclectic canon. From this vantage point, he views his oeuvre ... More about this title

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  Erwin Koch

  Undercover Love

  True Stories
  Two Columbian priests arrange for their own murder in order to cover up an illicit love affair – and the truth only comes to light because the hit-men took along one of the cleric’s mobile ... More about this title

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  Michael Köhlmeier

  The Adventures of Joel Spazierer

  “It was never my ambition to be a man of virtue – even if for a while I assumed that morality was hardwired into our genes.” The narrator who tells his shocking life-story in this book is a ... More about this title

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  Martin Krauß

  The Ones Who Came Before

  The History of Hiking and Mountaineering in the Alps
  Alpinism was born with the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786, and from that point on mountaineering chronicles consisted of little more than lists of climbers who first conquered the highest ... More about this title

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  Björn Kuhligk

  The Silence Between the Last Hour and the First

  ‘“If you see leaves that walk,” said the butcher’s son, “You’re looking at ants moving quickly”. In this new collection, Björn Kuhligk, who in his youth was dubbed the “Concrete ... More about this title

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  Günter Kunert

  The Comforts of Catastrophe

  “One day I read somewhere that we sleep away half our lives,” writes Günter Kunert, “and I have to say it really doesn’t bother me that much.” Perhaps that’s because the world as we ... More about this title

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