Clemens Meyer: Als wir träumten (While We Were Dreaming)
The latest addition to my website is Clemens Meyer's Als wir träumten (While We Were Dreaming). This was the first of his novels published in German but the second to…
Ulrike Almut Sandig: Monster wie wir ( Monsters Like Us)
The latest addition to my website is Ulrike Almut Sandig's Monster wie wir (Monsters Like Us). The novel is narrated by Ruth, now a successful violinist to her almost invisible…
Wolfgang Hilbig: Das Provisorium (The Interim)
The latest addition to my website is Wolfgang Hilbig's Das Provisorium (The Interim). This novel tells the story of C. He had been a good East German, working in a…
Wolfgang Hilbig: Alte Abdeckerei (Old Rendering Plant)
The latest addition to my website is Wolfgang Hilbig's Hilbig: Alte Abdeckerei. This is a short novel, set in what was East Germany, in a fairly remote area. Our unnamed…
Siegfried Lenz: Der Überläufer (The Turncoat)
The latest addition to my website is Siegfried Lenz's Der Überläufer (The Turncoat). This novel was originally written in 1951, Lenz's second novel. However, it was not published then, partially…
Francis Nenik: Reise durch ein tragikomisches Jahrhundert (Journey Through a Tragicomic Century)
The latest addition to my website is Francis Nenik's Reise durch ein tragikomisches Jahrhundert (Journey Through a Tragicomic Century). The book is a narrative non-fiction. It is the biography of…
Uwe Tellkamp: Der Turm (The Tower)
The latest addition to my website is Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm (The Tower). This is a monumental novel - around a thousand pages long - which follows the lives of…