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Welcome to the reviews of Issue 25: Spring 2009.
A list of contents
This list of contents separates the reviews into genre as they appear in the print issue.

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Adorján, Johanna
Eine exklusive Liebe
One couple’s remarkable life journey

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Arjouni, Jakob
Der heilige Eddy
Merry japes in Berlin-Kreuzberg

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Bossong, Nora
Webers Protokoll
It’s all shades of grey in a diplomat’s world

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Bossong, Nora (Sample Translation)
Webers Protokoll
It’s all shades of grey in a diplomat’s world

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Breznik, Melitta
Nordlicht
The healing powers of those northern climes

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Burkart, Erika
Geheimbrief
‘What is it that grips you thus at dusk?’

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Cohen, Robert
Exil der frechen Frauen
‘And the ship with eight sails, and with fifty cannons …’

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Cziffra, Géza von
Der heilige Trinker. Erinnerungen an Joseph Roth
When in the coffee houses of fin de siècle Vienna, one might chance upon …

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Dalos, György
Jugendstil
Young and at large in Budapest

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De Dijn, Rosine
Das Schicksalsschiff.
One ship – two vastly differing cargoes

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Diner, Dan
Gegenläufige Gedächtnisse
A prize-winning work by an eminent historian

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Dorner, Maximilian
Lahme Ente in New York
‘Now I will do nothing but listen …’
– Walt Whitman

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Drvenkar, Zoran
Sorry
It’s the hardest word to say

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Falanga, Gianluca
Mussolinis Vorposten in Hitlers Reich
Der Führer and Il Duce – an exploration of ‘friendship’

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Falanga, Gianluca (Sample Translation)
Mussolini’s Outpost in Hitler’s Reich
Italy’s Policy in Berlin, 1933–1945

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Gaponenko, Marjana
Nachtflug
(Night Flight)

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Geltinger, Gunther
Mensch Engel
A gay coming-of-age novel and an explosive new talent

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Groschupf, Johannes
Hinterhofhelden
A juicy slice of Berlin life

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Hanika, Beate Teresa
Rotkäppchen muss weinen
And off she went, with her basket tucked under her arm …

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Heinichen, Veit
Die Ruhe des Stärkeren
It’s an ill wind

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Ivanji, Ivan
Schattenspringen
One young man’s journey home – and a father’s promise

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Izquierdo, Andreas
König von Albanien
Bow to me, for I am Otto, King of Albania

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Kettenbach, Hans Werner
Das starke Geschlecht
I ask the court to rise

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Kleist, Reinhard
Havanna. Eine kubanische Reise
The thrum of Cuban rhythms

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Knauss, Sibylle
Eden
Archaeology and ardour – an absorbing combination

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Knauss, Sibylle (Sample Translation)
Eden
Archaeology and ardour – an absorbing combination

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Kutscher, Volker
Der stumme Tod
The poetry of silence meets the Talkies

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Langenegger, Lorenz
Hier im Regen
Happiness, you elusive creature

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Lebert, Benjamin
Flug der Pelikane
The city that never sleeps – and Alcatraz?

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Merz, Klaus
Der Argentinier
Dreams of tango in the Alps

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Orths, Markus
Das Zimmermädchen
What’s under your bed?

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Rammstedt, Tilman
Der Kaiser von China
From China with love

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Rieger, Eva
Leuchtende Liebe, lachender Tod.
Wagner and his women

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Röder, Marlene
Zebraland
Can a cover-up ever work?

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Safier, David
Jesus liebt mich
Who says the Germans don’t have a sense of humour?

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Schwartz, Daniel
Schnee in Samarkand
Step this way for mountains and deserts and adventures galore

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Seghers, Anna
Transit
‘Segher’s most beautiful work.’
– Heinrich Böll
Marseilles in the 1940s

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Seghers, Anna (Sample Translation)
Transit
‘Segher’s most beautiful work.’
– Heinrich Böll
Marseilles in the 1940s


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Simmenauer, Sonia
Muss es sein?
The real-life world that was fictionalised by Vikram Seth in An Equal Music

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Steinfest, Heinrich
Mariaschwarz
The sardonic Austrian is back

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Steinfest, Heinrich (Sample Translation)
Mariaschwarz
The sardonic Austrian is back

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Stöckel, Reinhard
Der Lavagänger
Those in search of pearls have to dive to the bottom of the sea

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Stöckel, Reinhard (Sample Translation)
Der Lavagänger
Those in search of pearls have to dive to the bottom of the sea

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Wagner, Jan Costin
Im Winter der Löwen
How long the Finnish nights – will morning ever come?

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Wildner, Martina
Six
A glove – with six fingers?

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