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Category Archives: Books in German
We would have told each other everything-Wir haetten uns alles gesagt- Judith Hermann
I was a keen reader of German writer Judith Hermann a little while back, loving her cool, distanced tone and elegant sentences. After a little gap since Letti Park, she’s come back into my life, through the excerpt of Wir … Continue reading
Sisters in Arms by Shida Bazyar translated by Ruth Martin
The writer Shida Bazyar told us at the recent Goethe Institut event that Sisters in Arms, longlisted for the German Book Prize 2021, was partly inspired by Erich Maria Remarque’s book Three Comrades. She’d been intrigued by the pull of … Continue reading
Posted in Books in German, Books in Translation, Uncategorized
Tagged Ruth Martin, Shida Bazyar, Sisters in Arms
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Deutschland- Granta 165
It’s been such a pleasure to end the year reading this superb Granta collection. The writing includes fiction, auto-fiction, essays on culture and politics, poetry and journalism. It’s not just a collection of written pieces: there are also three series … Continue reading
Without Waking Up by Carolina Schutti, translated by Deirdre McMahon.
This novel by Austrian writer Caroline Schutti won the European Prize for Literature 2015 and has just now been published in English translation. It’s the story of Maja, brought up by a taciturn great-aunt in a rural village in some … Continue reading
Lionheart- Loewenherz- by Monika Helfer
What a pleasure to reconnect with the world of Monika Helfer and die Bagage- the riff-raff. Löwenherz, Lionheart, is the final novel in Monika Helfer’s family story. The trilogy starts, in die Bagage, with her grandmother, then goes on to … Continue reading
Posted in Books by Austrian writers, Books in German, Memoir
Tagged Die Bagage, Loewenherz, Monika Helfer, Vati
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Welten Auseinander-Worlds Apart-by Julia Franck.
Julia Franck is best known amongst English readers for her novel The Blind Side of the Heart, a moving family story set during the Second World War. This time, in Worlds Apart, she’s writing about her own life, though she … Continue reading
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck,(translation Michael Hofmann).
I’m a great fan of German writer Jenny Erpenbeck. With novels like The End of Days and Go, Went, Gone, and her non-fiction collection Not a Novel, she’s acquired for me the status of public intellectual, a sort of German … Continue reading
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Tagged Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
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