New Vessel Press

The Propagandist

By Cécile Desprairies - By Natasha Lehrer (trans.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

In the 1960s, when she is six or seven years old, Coline begins paying attention to her mother Lucie’s regular morning gatherings ...Read Review

Palace of Flies

By Georg Bauer (trans.) - By Walter Kappacher - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

In this melancholy, atmospheric novella, Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), the former darling of fin de siècle Vienna, returns to a spa near Salzburg ...Read Review

Pollak’s Arm

By Elisabeth Lauffer (trans.) - By Hans von Trotha - Published 2022

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What would compel a man to dither about and ponder his past accomplishments rather than entrusting his life to friends, seeking shelter, and ...Read Review

The Vanished Collection

By Natasha Lehrer (trans.) - By Pauline Baer de Perignon - Published 2022

Genres:

Nonfiction

When a cousin mentions to de Perignon that her great-grandfather’s art collection may have been stolen, she is inspired to go on ...Read Review

The Piano Student

By Elisabeth Lauffer (trans.) - By Lea Singer - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

In Lea Singer’s biographical novel, The Piano Student, an elderly man, Nico Kaufmann, brings a younger man on a guided tour of ...Read Review

Villa of Delirium

By Adrien Goetz - By Natasha Lehrer (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

Villa of Delirium is a literary novel, originally published in French, that brings to life the hypnotic story of one family—the Reinachs—...Read Review

The Bishop’s Bedroom

By Piero Chiara - Published 2019

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/CrimeThriller

Chiara’s suspenseful novel opens with a wealthy and unnamed narrator stepping of his sailboat in 1946 Italy and meeting Temistocle Mario Orimbelli. From ...Read Review

The Goose Fritz

By Sergei Lebedev - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

When a deranged sergeant brutally kills a goose he mistakes for a German soldier, Kirill, a young intellectual with a Soviet childhood, begins ...Read Review

What’s Left of the Night

By Ersi Sotiropoulos - By Karen Emmerich (trans.) - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

This biographical novel takes place during a trip to Paris in the young life of Constantine Cavafy, the Greek poet credited as C. ...Read Review