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Among the Bieresch by Klaus Hoffer; Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Young Hans arrives with one suitcase in a squalid village on the eastern edge of empire--a surreal postwar Austria. His uncle has died, and according to the tradition required by his people--the Bieresch--Hans must assume his uncle's place for one year. In a series of interactions with the village's tra ...Show more
Anselm Kiefer Notebooks Volume 1, 1998-99 by Anselm Kiefer; Tess Lewis (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\German List Ser.
"For a long time, it was not clear if I would become a writer or an artist," says Anselm Kiefer, whose paintings and sculptures have made him one of the most significant and influential artists of our time. Since he was awarded the Peace Prize by the German Book Trade in 2008, his essays, speeches, and ...Show more
Apostoloff by Sibylle Lewitscharoff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
"Gone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than damnation." Two sisters travel to Sofia--in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile--to bury their less-than-beloved father. Like tourists, t ...Show more
August by Christa Wolf ; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Christa Wolf was arguably the best-known and most influential writer in the former East Germany. Having grown up during the Nazi regime, she and her family were forced to flee their home like many others, nearly starving to death in the process. Her earliest novels were controversial because they contai ...Show more
Charges (The Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek (Gitta Honegger TRN)
$38.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: SB-The German List | Reading Level: General Adult
In recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the Middle East and Africa have driven thousands of desperate people to attempt Mediterranean crossings in hopes of reaching Europe, and safety. Many have died en route, and those who make it face a far from cert ...Show more
Collected Poems: George Trakl by Georg Trakl; James Reidel (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: The\German List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously wrote that while he did not truly understand Trakl's poems, they had the tone ...Show more
Correspondence: Paul Celan Ingeborg Bachman by Paul Celan; Ingeborg Bachmann; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\German List Ser.
Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature's most important novelist ...Show more
Dark Company: A Novel in Ten Rainy Nights by Gert Loschutz
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: German List
"Of course I had to end up here..." Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-barge-man who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of the land-locked German interior and remembers the events that lost him his home, his boat, and his livelihood: his apprenticeship in the cold halls of the ...Show more
December by Alexander Kluge; Gerhard Richter; Martin Chalmers (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year. In storie ...Show more
Dispatches From Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge
$40.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\German List Ser.
On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue--but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary. That ...Show more
Dispatches from Moments of Calm by Alexander Kluge; Gerhard Richter; Nathaniel McBride (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\German List Ser.
On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue--but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary.That c ...Show more
Drilling Through Hard Boards : 133v Political Stories by Alexander Kluge; Wieland Hoban (Translator); Reinhard Jirgl (Contribution by); Iain Galbraith (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\German List Ser.
Max Weber famously described politics as "a strong, slow drilling through hard boards with both passion and judgment." Taking this as his inspiration, Alexander Kluge brings readers yet another literary masterpiece. Drilling through Hard Boards is a kaleidoscopic meditation on the tools available to tho ...Show more