Daniel Kehlmann: Lichtspiell [Cinema]
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…