Walter Kappacher: Der Fliegenpalast (Palace of Flies)
The latest addition to my website is Walter Kappacher's Der Fliegenpalast (Palace of Flies) the novel is set over ten days in August 1924 in the Austrian mountain resort of…
The latest addition to my website is Walter Kappacher's Der Fliegenpalast (Palace of Flies) the novel is set over ten days in August 1924 in the Austrian mountain resort of…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Die Kapuzinergruft (The Emperor’s Tomb). This was the last novel he published in his lifetime, when he was living in exile,…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Die Geschichte der 1002. Nacht (The String of Pearls; The Tale of the 1002nd Night). This is another excellent novel by…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Die hundert Tage (The Ballad of the Hundred; later: The Hundred Days). This novel tells the story of Napoleon's hundred days.…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Hiob (Job, the Story of a Simple Man). This is a modern (late 19th/early20th century) updating of the story of the…
The latest addition to my website is Katja Perat's Mazohistka (The Masochist). The novel is narrated by Nadezhda von Moser. She was found as a baby, abandoned, in a basket…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Radetzkymarsch (The Radetzky March). This is a superb novel, following the downfall of Austria from its defeat at the Battle of…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Hotel Savoy (Hotel Savoy). It tells the story of Gabriel Dan who, in 1919, is returning from three years in a…
The latest addition to my website is Robert Menasse's Die Hauptstadt (Capital). This is a satire on the European Union, its officials and some of the nationalities who are part…
The latest addition to my website is Heinrich Eggerth's Die Papierrose [The Paper Rose]. It is narrated by a man whose almost ten year old daughter has died of a…