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  • Jakob der Lügner

    Jurek Becker

    One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, Jakob the Liar is a tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion. Set in an…

  • Jaz

    Darko Tuševljaković

    A haunting novel about Serbia in the nineties and noughties. About a young generation torn within its own country and about the older generation that, obsessed with nostalgia, has declared…

  • Jeder stirbt für sich allein

    Hans Fallada

    A Berlin couple attempted a hopeless resistance against the Nazis and were executed in 1943. Hans Fallada learned of their fate from a Gestapo file that came into his hands…

  • Jenseits der Literatur. Oxford Lectures

    Durs Grünbein

    In his four lectures, which he gave in Oxford as part of the Lord Weidenfeld Lectures in 2019, poet Durs Grünbein explores a topic that has preoccupied him since the…

  • Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne

    Jean Améry

    With his 1966 essay collection Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne, Jean Améry became one of the most prominent voices among the survivors of Auschwitz. “In Améry’s unyielding and at the…

  • Jesmo li to bili mi

    Luiza Bouharaoua

    A generational book and a sensitive ode to friendship. Young heroes, often caught and lost between everyday life and dreams, are connected and driven by the desire for love, which,…

  • Jonathan (Intégrale) – Tome 4

    A young man from the West is looking for traces of his memory in the border area between Nepal and Tibet. He escaped from the psychiatric ward and suffers of…

  • Joyceov učenec

    Drago Jančar

    The stories in this probably best-known work by Drago Jančar reflect the complete 20th century. Strong and suggestive, the narration deals with life in various historical and political relations, with…

  • Jugoslavija, moja dežela

    Goran Vojnović

    When Vladan Borojević googles the name of his father Nedelko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People’s Army supposedly killed in the civil war after the deconstruction of Yugoslavia, he…