On its publication in German, Against the World was hailed as an immediate classic. "One of the most spectacular debuts of recent decades," said Kulturspiegel, while Der Spiegel went even farther: "Against the World is the book of books." Now English-language readers will get their first chance to see what German readers have already learned: this is a big, ambitious, over-the-top masterpiece. 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...
On its publication in German, Against the World was hailed as an immediate classic. "One of the most spectacular debuts of recent decades," sai...
When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime an all expenses paid holiday to any destination in the world the eccentric old man arbitrarily chooses China, and he asks Keith to accompany him. But when Keith loses all the money for the journey at a casino, he goes into hiding mostly under his desk and his grandfather equally uninterested in actually traveling to China heads down the road to engage in a similar subterfuge. And it is here that the novel opens, two men in hiding, mere miles apart. But when his grandfather dies unexpectedly, Keith is...
When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime an all expenses paid holiday to any destination in the world th...
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 contained veiled criticisms of the Communist regime which landed her on government watch lists. Her past continued to permeate her work and her life, as she said, You can only fight sorrow when you look it in the eye. Augustis Christa Wolf s last piece of fiction, written in a single...
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 f...
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 returning to the city, he tries to reconstruct the events of a few days so many years ago, and he revisits and questions his own memories of working in the chilling cold centre the air conditioning plant for the East German party newspaper. Did she come in contact with a contaminated truck...
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 d...
During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th? Fascinated by considering the significance of a single day over many years, Wolf began keeping a detailed diary of September 27th, a practice which she carried on for more than fifty years until her death in 2011. The first volume of these notes covered 1960 through 2000 was published to great acclaim more than a decade ago. Now translator Katy Derbyshire is bringing the September 27th collection up to date with One Day a Year--a collection...
During a 1960 interview, East German writer Christa Wolf was asked a curious question: would she describe in detail what she did on September 27th? Fa...
In Eulogy for the Living, Wolf recalls with crystalline precision the everyday details of her life as a middle-class grocer's daughter, and the struggles within the family--struggles common to most families, but exacerbated by the rise of Nazism.
In Eulogy for the Living, Wolf recalls with crystalline precision the everyday details of her life as a middle-class grocer's daughter, and the strugg...
How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center.
How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon ...