New Directions

Vertigo

By W.G. Sebald - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

Like memory itself, this novel embodies and transcends time and ranges from the mid-18th century to the present. Essentially, it consists of ...Read Review

The Tortoises

By Veza Canetti - Published 2001

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

The Tortoises (trans. from the German by Ian Mitchell) focuses on a tense waiting period endured by a Viennese Jewish couple. In late 1938, ...Read Review

The Dry Danube

By Paul West - Published 2000

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Adolf Hitler narrates, ranting and raving, his own life story during the years prior to the First World War. In Vienna, trying to ...Read Review

A Fifth of November

By Paul West - Published 2001

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England during the reign of James I was a time of fear and persecution for Catholic Jesuits. A Fifth of November is a ...Read Review