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All the Roads Are Open - The Afghan Journey by Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator)
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Category: Travel | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan j ...Show more
Dark Company - A Novel in Ten Rainy Nights by Gert Loschütz; Samuel P. Willcocks (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
"Of course I had to end up here . . ." Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-bargeman who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of the landlocked German interior and remembers the events that lost him his home, his boat, and his livelihood: his apprenticeship in the cold halls of th ...Show more
Death in Persia by Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Lucy Renner Jones (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist--has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jo ...Show more
My Father, the Germans and I - Essays, Lectures, Interviews by Jurek Becker; Christine Becker (Editor)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
Jürek Becker (1937?97) is best known for his novel Jacob the Liar, which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the Lódz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfiction, and the essays, lectures, and interviews collected ...Show more
Singers Die Twice - A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad by Peter Pannke; Samuel P. Willcocks (Translator)
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Category: Music | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
Singers Die Twice is the story of a life in music. One of Germany's best-known exponents of North Indian classical music, specifically dhrupad singing, Perer Pannke has traveled from his home in Germany to Varanasi, Delhi, Darbhanga, and the forests of Vrindaban to study classical Indian singing in the ...Show more
Soutine's Last Journey by Ralph Dutli; Katharina Rout (Translator)
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Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
August 6, 1943. Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belorussia and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani, and Picasso, is hidden in a hearse that's traveling from a small town on the Loire towards Nazi-occupied Paris. Suffering from a stomach ulcer, he urgently needs a life-saving operation. But the he ...Show more
The Cold Centre by Inka Parei; Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
Inka Parei's novel The Cold Centre begins with a man who receives a startling call from his ex-wife. She's in the hospital, awaiting a cancer diagnosis. His mind races as he suddenly realizes he must find out whether she was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Quickly retur ...Show more
The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons by Monica Cantieni; Donal McLaughlin (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
?My father bought me from the council for 365 francs,? recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel?The?Encyclopaedia?of Good Reasons. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption is yet to be finalized. When she finally moves into her new home with her new family, she recounts her ...Show more
The Radio Family by Ingeborg Bachmann; Mike Mitchell (Translator); Joseph McVeigh (Afterword by)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe 47, Bachmann gained international renown for her poems, short stories, and novels, and won numerous awar ...Show more
Zurich Transit by Max Frisch
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein, or A Wilderness of Mirrors. At the center of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a man who cannot seem to change his life no matter how many times he resolves to do so. Chance comes to Theo ...Show more
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