Claudiu Komartin
“A synthesis of the contemporary Romanian society, sarcastic but nonetheless full of hope,” reads the characterization of Claudiu Komartin’s poems in the review by Jan Koneffke. This bilingual selection of…
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Underground Comedy Hristo Boytchev
Beneath the cities and regions of Rome, Naples, Alexandria, Sicily, and North Africa, there lies a vast, thousand-kilometre-long stretch of catacombs. Many believe that inside these labyrinths some people still…
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Ungleiche Brüder. Russen und Ukrainer vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart Andreas Kappeler
Russians and Ukrainians have referred to themselves as brother nations for centuries, with the Russians seeing themselves in the role of the big brother. This book tells the story of…
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Unser Deutschlandmärchen Dinçer Güçyeter
Unser Deutschlandmärchen is a family story told by a multitude of voices. Women of several generations and the son – born in Almanya (Germany) – remember in poetic, oftentimes mythical,…
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Unser großes Album elektrischer Tage Johanna Maxl
Violence, pop culture, dirt, feminism and urban slums: In her debut novel, Johanna Maxl describes the life attitude of a generation. The literary album is the breathless story of the…
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Unter der Drachenwand Arno Geiger
Veit Kolbe spends some months at Lake Mondsee, underneath the majestic Dragonwall, in Upper Austria. Here he meets two women. However, he is but a soldier off duty, nursing his…
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Unter die Oberfläche Mojca Kumerdej
Dark, frightening things lurk beneath the surface: a woman pretends to be a loving mother to her young daughter, but on the inside she longs for her self-determined life before…
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Unternehmer Matthias Nawrat
Lipa is thirteen, and she is employee of the month in a very special kind of family business. Together with her father and her little brother, one-armed Berti, she scours…
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Unterstadt Ivana Šojat
The award-winning cult novel Unterstadt is first and foremost a novel about Osijek, especially the Osijek district of Donji grad (German: Unterstadt). It follows the ups and downs of a…
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Upotreba čoveka Aleksandar Tišma
In his novel Aleksandar Tišma’s creates powerful images to showcase how Second World War wrecks upheaval in the more or less calm lives of the people of Novi Sad and…
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Uranijumska braća Murat Baltić
A German police official loses his son in the Kosovo war. A talkative and weathered Kosovar Rom moves to Germany with his three wives and eleven children. A mysterious uranium…
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Utjeha noćnog neba Dževad Karahasan
In Isfahan, the capital of the Seljuq Empire, a highly respected man dies unexpectedly. The deceased’s son demands clarification. The court astronomer and mathematician, Omar Khayyam, takes part in the…