Germany – The Modern Novel

Daniel Kehlmann: Lichtspiell [Cinema]

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Post published:10 November 2023
Post category:Cinema Germany The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Daniel Kehlmann's Lichtspiell [Cinema]. The book gives us episodes from the life of Austrian film director G. W. Pabst, who discovered Greta Garbo,…

Gervasio Posadas: El mentalista de Hitler The Clairvoyant

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Post published:17 June 2023
Post category:Germany Hitler The Modern Novel website Uruguay
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The latest addition to my website is Gervasio Posadas' El mentalista de Hitler The Clairvoyant. This is the story of the very real Erik Jan Hanussen. He was an Austrian…

Mithu Sanyal: Identitti (Identitti)

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Post published:18 May 2023
Post category:Germany Racism The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Mithu Sanyal's Identitti (Identitti). The book is narrated by a German-born blogger (Polish mother, Indian father), Nivedita Anand, who talks to Kali (the…

Clemens Meyer: Als wir träumten (While We Were Dreaming)

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Post published:30 March 2023
Post category:Drugs German Democratic Republic Germany The Modern Novel website
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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…

Nino Haratischwili: Mein sanfter Zwilling (My Soul Twin)

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Post published:27 November 2022
Post category:Georgia Germany The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Nino Haratischwili's Mein sanfter Zwilling (My Soul Twin). Stella's parents divorced when she she was six and she and her sister went to…

Esther Kinsky: Rombo (Rombo

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Post published:4 October 2022
Post category:Earthquake Germany The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Esther Kinsky's Rombo (Rombo. This is another wonderful book from Esther Kinsky, this one giving an account of the 1976 Friuli earthquake and,…

Ulrike Almut Sandig: Monster wie wir ( Monsters Like Us)

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Post published:26 June 2022
Post category:German Democratic Republic Germany Sexual abuse The Modern Novel website Women
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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…

Hans von Trotha: Pollaks Arm (Pollak’s Arm)

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Post published:5 March 2022
Post category:Art Germany Sculpture The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Hans von Trotha's Pollaks Arm (Pollak’s Arm). Ludwig Pollak was a very respected Jewish Austro-Czech classical archeologist and dealer, who spent much of…

Jens Bjørneboe: Frihetens øyeblikk (Moment of Freedom)

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Post published:23 January 2022
Post category:Germany Norway The Modern Novel website War
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Latest on my website: Jens Bjørneboe's Frihetens øyeblikk (Moment of Freedom) This is a thoroughly grim account by a forty-six year old Norwegian, living in a remote Alpine part of…

Karen Duve: Regenroman (Rain)

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Post published:3 January 2022
Post category:Germany The Modern Novel website Women
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The latest addition to my website is Karen Duve's Regenroman (Rain). Leon Ulbricht is an unsuccessful writer when his friend Harry Klaamt gets him the job of writing a biography…