Anthea Bell (trans.)
Himmler’s Cook
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Celebrated chef and restaurateur, Rose, begins this memoir of her life, and the 20th century, with a letter of informing her of a ...Read Review
West
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This novel is mostly set in a West Berlin transit hostel in the late 1970s. The inmates, a motley group, have sought asylum ...Read Review
Back to Back
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The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and brother and sister Thomas and Ella are growing up ...Read Review
In Times of Fading Light
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Eugen Ruge’s newly translated literary novel lets us experience the political upheaval of a German family, interspersed with somewhat sarcastic reflections on ...Read Review
After Midnight
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“A writer who is afraid is no true writer,” say the bohemian characters in Irmgard Keun’s 1937 novel, though the words could’ve ...Read Review
The Calligrapher’s Secret
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Noura is a woman who is educated by her scholarly father in mid-20th century Damascus, Syria. However, that spirit of curiosity and ...Read Review
The Blind Side of the Heart
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Eastern Germany at the end of the Second World War. The story starts with a young boy, Peter, being abandoned by his mother ...Read Review
