Anthea Bell (trans.)
In Times of Fading Light
Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on…
After Midnight
“A writer who is afraid is no true writer,” say the bohemian characters in Irmgard Keun’s 1937 novel, though the…
The Blind Side of the Heart
Eastern Germany at the end of the Second World War. The story starts with a young boy, Peter, being abandoned…
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