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  • Das Philosophenschiff

    Michael Köhlmeier

    With this major work, Michael Köhlmeier continues in the footsteps of his bestseller Two Gentlemen on the Beach. Architect Anouk Perleman-Jacob invites a writer to her 100th birthday and asks…

  • Das primäre Gefühl der Schuldlosigkeit

    Dana Grigorcea

    A bank is robbed and, as a result, Victoria is given leave from work to deal with her traumatic experience. Having just returned to her hometown, she uses the time…

  • Das Provisorium

    Wolfgang Hilbig

    In the 1980s, the writer C. from Leipzig was allowed to temporarily leave East Germany with a visa. In West Germany, he fell in love with a woman, however the…

  • Das Regenorchester

    Hansjörg Schertenleib

    Ireland should be the place for a Swiss writer, where his wife, and he, her beloved, live. Yet now he sits deceived in his house. It’s there that Niamh meets…

  • Das Verschwinden des Schattens in der Sonne

    Barbara Frischmuth

    A student of oriental languages travels to Turkey to research information about a secretive order for her dissertation. However friendly her welcome, and however hard she tries to observe local…

  • Das Zimmer

    Andreas Maier

    With one leg he still stands in paradise, the delivery forceps made for that. He has remained a child, although he grew older, and he had to live in one…

  • De două mii de ani …

    Mihail Sebastian

    The storyline of this autobiographical novel begins in the 1920s. The nameless narrator, a young man, witnesses how Jewish students are violently expelled from a university. As he is himself…

  • Deca

    Milena Marković

    Milena Marković belongs to the subset of authors whose writing can be both very direct as well as highly lyrical in its sensitivity. This is especially true of Deca [Children],…

  • Der alte König in seinem Exil

    Arno Geiger

    Arno Geiger has written a deeply touching book about his father who despite his Alzheimer’s disease impressed with his vitality, wits and intelligence. The disease slowly eats away his memories…

  • Der Bildakt

    Horst Bredekamp

    Not since Byzantine iconoclasm and the iconoclasm of the Reformation have images been thought about with such intensity as in recent decades. In addition to archaeology and art history, numerous…

  • Der Blindensturz

    Gert Hofmann

    The Story Behind a Painting. We all know Pieter Bruegel’s painting The Parable of the Blind: six gaunt, silent, blind figures. In this book, they begin to speak……