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The Loser

By Bernhard, Thomas.
New York, USA : Random House, 1993 .
189p. , A complex and unsettling novel about genius and obsession mirroring the thought process of a compulsive mind. 13cmx20cm.
9781400077540

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The Old Child and other Stories

By Erpenbeck, Jenny.
80th Eighth Avenue, New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2005 .
120p., , The Old Child and Other Stories introduces in English one of Germany's most original and brilliant young authors, Jenny Erpenback. Written in sparse and highly concentrated language, " a sustained feat of verbal economy( Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real . Somber, nostalgic and often mystical, these marvelous fictions provide glimpse into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics. the parable-like novella Old child describes a girl's mind seemingly blank: picked up off the street with no discoverable past, she is brought to a children's home where she finds she can succeed by her silence. In another story, Siberia" the heroine smuggled out of a Russian camp vigorously re establishes herself in her old home............. 13cmx20cm.
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Measuring the World

By Kehlmann, Daniel.
New York : Vintage Books, 2006 .
259p. , Late in the 18th Century ,two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them ,the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt ,negotiates jungles ,voyages down the Orinoco River ,tastes poisons ,climbs the highest mountain known to man ,counts head lice ,and explores and measures every cave and hill he comes across. The other ,the reclusive and barely socialized mathematician Cral Friedrich Gauss ,can prove that space is curved without leaving his home. Terrifyingly famous and wildly eccentric ,these two polar opposites finally meet in Berlin in 1828 are are immediately embroiled in the turmoil of the post-Napoleonic world. 13x20cm.
9780307277398

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Siddhartha. A dual-language Book

By Hesse, Hermann.
Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 1998 .
175p. , The story concerns a young Brahman who quits his comfortable to join a roving group of holy men striving to empty their hearts of passion and desire through self-denial and meditation. discouraged by failure to find Nirvana after three years of the strictest asceticism, the young seeker turns the fleshly world, where he becomes a wealthy merchant and part takes of sensual pleasures with a sophisticated courtesan........ :13x21cm.
9780486404370

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Michael Kohlhaas; A Tale from an old Chronicle

By Von Kleist, Heinrich.
New York : Modial , 2007 .
85p. 14x21cm.
9781595690760

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Lost

By Treichel, Hans-Ulrich.
New York : Vintage , 1999 .
136p. , As a young boy the narrator learns form his parents that Arnold, the older brother he believed to have starved to death, might actually be alive. Fearing for their safety during their flight from the advancing Russian Army in 1945, his parents placed baby Arnold into the arms of a refugee, losing them both amidst the crowd. The family has settled in Westphalen and established a new life for themselves, but losing Arnold continues to haunt them. While the narrator shares in his parents anguish and devastation, he cant resist the feeling resentful, for his brother's absence is the most present and defining aspect of his life. when his parents learn of a foundling who resembles Arnold, they embark on a horrific quest to claim him as their own. At turns uncanny, subtle, and amusing, Lost is a chilling novel of mesmerizing power. 13cmx21cm.
9780375706226

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Me and Kaminski

By Kehlmann, Daniel.
New York: Pantheon Books, 2008 .
195p. 11cmx19cm.
9780307377449

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A Perfect Waiter

By Sulzer, Alain claude.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2008 .
211p. , Erneste is the perfect waiter and his private life seems to embody the qualities he brings to his proffession. But inwardly this polite and dignified man is in the grip of a voilent passion: He yaerns for a young waiter in training, Jakob, who broke his heart when he fled Nazi-dominated Europe for a new life in America with his lover, a celebrated German intellectual. Nursing a broken heart, Erneste slinks even depper into his well ordered world, and spends the next thirty years hardening into what had previously only been a role........ 13x20cm.
9781596914117

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Summerhouse, Later

By Hermann, Judith.
New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 2001 .
205p. , In nine luminous stories of love and loss, loneliness and hope, Judith Herman's stunning debut collection paints a vivid and poignant picture of a generation ready and anxious to return to their back on the past, to risk uncertainity in search of a fresh and anxious to turn their back on the past, to risk uncertainty in search a fresh and fragile, equilibrium......... 12x18cm.
9780060006877

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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

By Mann, Thomas.
New York : Vintage International , 1992 .
384p.; , Unhampered by the moral precepts that govern the conduct of ordinary mortals ,possessed of a formidable intelligence and striking good looks ,Krull rises swiftly from poverty to affluence. Following him along the shady paths he is destined to take ,the story moves through a world inhabited by bizarre characters from all strata of European society. The result is a withering commentary on human folly ,as well as a delightful ,often raucously funny novel of high adventure. 13cmx20cm.
9780679739043

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New Lives

By Schulze, Ingo.
New York : Vintage Books, 2009 .
573p. , East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Tuermer, man of the theater, secret novelist, turns his back on art and signs on to work at a newly started newspaper. Freed from the compulsion to describe the world, he plunges into everyday life. Under the guidance of his Mephisto, the ever-present Clemens von Barrista, the former aesthete suddenly develops worldly ambitions even he didn’t know he had. ALSO IN GERMAN ;13x20cm.
9780307277985

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All that counts

By Oswald, Georg M..
New York Grove Press 2001 .
166p. , Thirty-something Thomas Schwarz is certain that he is soon to become department head of Liquidations and Foreclosures at the bank where he works. But after fumbling a particularly byzantine property case, his life begins to unravel: his female boss glibly fires him and his wife walks out.Suddenly acquainted with the giddy thrill of a life unmoored, he falls in with a cocaine-fueled crowd of money launderers who set out to exploit him. But when the gang is busted, Thomas seizes his chance to escape with the profits and, in a final breathless move, exposes once and for all just how precarious the trappings of society really are.. 14x21cm.
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Group Potrait with Lady

By Boell, Heinrich.
Brooklyn,New York Melville House publishing 2011 .
452 p. , Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the "crown" of Heinrich Boell's work, the gripping story of Group Portrait with Lady, unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interview, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story- past and present- of one of Boell's most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war window. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building , a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany's dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism. 14x20cm.
9781935554332

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My Father's Country: The story of a German family

By Bruhns, Wibke.
New York : Random House, 2008 .
334p. , In August 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth was executed for his part in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old at the time. Decades later, watching a documentary about the events of July 20, images of her father in the Third Reich People's Court appear on screen - and she realizes she never knew him. In My Father's Country, Bruhns tells of her search for her father. 13x19cm.
9780099478775

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The Girl with the Louding Voice

By Dare, Abi.
New York : Penguin Random House LLC, 2020 .
259p., 15cmx21cm.
9781529359237

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Silent Movies: The birth of film and the triumph of movie culture

By Kobel,Peter.
New York Little Brown & Company 2007 .
301 p. , Drawing on the Library of Congress's massive collection of silent films and film memorabilia ,Silent Movies explores the fascinating world of silent film ,from its birth in the 1890s with the earliest narrative shorts ,to the brillian full-length features of the 1920s. The producers ,directors and actors in silent movies created an art form and established a narrative and visual style that continue to this day. At the same time ,silent movies created a new kind of celebrity - the movie star - and the movie executives quickly learned how valuable a marketing vehicle the early stars could be .Douglas Fairbanks ,Greta Garbo ,Clara Bow ,Louise Brooks ,Harold Lloyd ,John Gilbert , and dozens of others appear here in all their glory. 24cm.
9780316117913

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Gerhard Richter : Forty Years of Painting

By Storr, Robert .
New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2002 .
340p., 26cmx30cm.
9781891024375

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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

By Biesenbach ,Klaus .
Singapore The Museum of Modern Art ,New York 2010 .
224 p. , Since the beginning of her career, in Belgrade in the late 1960's, Marinna Abramovic has pioneered performance as visual art form, creating some of the most important works in the fireld. Mariana Abramovic: The Artist Is present documents this history in detail, representing the range of Abramovic's Art in sound, Videa, installation, photography, and performance, as well aas the reperformance of both solo and collaborative historical works. Ephemeral and time-based, performance is harder than more traditional art works to preserve and pass on to posterity; The Artist Is Present constitites a complex address of this issue. Featuring essays by Klaus Biesenbach, Arthur C. Danto, Chrissie Iles, Nancy Spector, nad Jovana Stokic, the book also includes an audio recording in which Abramovic her self guides the reader through the volume pages. 24cm.
9780870707476

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After the Wall : Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next

By Hensel, Jana.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2004 .
180p. ;13cm.
9781586485597

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Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story

By Swann, Leonie.
New York: Broadway Books, 2006 .
342p. , On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glenkill, the members of the flock gather around their shepherd ,George ,whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George has cared for the sheep ,reading them a plethora of books every night. The daily exposure to literature has made them far savvier about the workings of the human mind than your average sheep. Led by Miss Maple ,the smartest sheep in Glenkill (and possibly the world) ,they set out to find George's killer. The A-team of investigators includes Othello ,the "bad-boy" black ram ; Mopple the Whale ,a merino who eats a lot and remembers everything ; and Zora ,a pensive black-faced ewe with a weakness for abysses. Joined by other members of the richly talented flock ,they engage in nightlong discussions about the crime and wild metaphysical speculations, and they embark on reconnaisance missions into the village, where they encounter some likely suspects. There's Ham ,the terrifying butcher ; Rebecca, a village newcomer with a secret and a scheme ; Gabriel ,the shady shepherd of a very odd flock ; and Father Will ,a sinister priest .Along the way ,the sheep confront their own all-too -human struggles with guilt ,misdeeds ,and unrequited love. 13cm.
9780767927055

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