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All Days are Night by Peter Stamm; Michael Hofmann
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Peter Stamm, short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize, breaks new ground in this haunting novel about survival, self-reliance, and art, available for the first time in paperback. All Days Are Night is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful woman. Married and working a dream job ...Show more
Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Poems by HOFMANN MICHAEL
$29.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Rilke, Sachs, Brecht, Celan: German has produced some of the giants of 20th century European poetry. In this new selection, complete with many new translations, Michael Hofmann guides us through the poems, poets and themes of German verse. Meticulously researched but eminently approachable, The Faber Bo ...Show more
Investigations of a Dog : And Other Creatures by Franz Kafka , Transl: Michael Hofmann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Description: Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka's lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in "Little Fable" to the absurd humor of "Inv ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (Translator)
$50.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize. Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos-an unforgettably compelling masterpiece-tells the story of the romance ...Show more
Kairos: Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024 by Jenny Erpenbeck
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
Kairos (HB) by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (translator)
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen; Michael Hofmann (Afterword by)
$30.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odys ...Show more
Robert Lowell by Michael Hofmann
$12.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poet to Poet
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
The Burrow by Franz Kafka; Michael Hofmann (Translator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Translated by Michael Hofmann.'They come, you hear the scratch of their claws just below you in the ground, and already you are lost.'Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more sub ...Show more
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann (Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a new selection of writings about Europe between the wars, by turns poignant, witty and unsettling