Claudia, about to turn 40, has everything she needs - a good apartment, friends and a hobby. Single by conviction she is content with her uncomplicated lifestyle until Henry, her neighbour, enters her life. The East German author Christoph Hein won t...
Set in 1968 Leipzig, Christoph Hein's novel is the story of Dallow, an apolitical academic who has just returned to civilian life after serving twenty-one months in prison. His crime: he was the substitute piano player in a student cabaret in which s...
A fascinating glimpse into the world of one prosperous man, set upon by the forces of the new world.
Bernd Willenbrock is the owner of a used-car dealership in the newly unified Germany. In the nascent free market of Central Europe, the former...
In “one of the most important German novels of recent years,”* a man, a town, and a country wrestle with fifty years of displacement and political upheaval
Provincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of G...