New Books in German - Reviews Spr.08 - Archive

WDPX-Frank Wollweber, 38855 Wernigerode, Germany

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This list of contents separates the reviews into genre as they appear in the print issue.

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Hinter blinden Fenstern
As God is my witness …

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Meine total wahren und überhaupt nicht peinlichen Memoiren mit genau elfeinhalb
Love does funny things

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Nachglühen
An evocative tale highlighting a side of life in the GDR by a young writer of note

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Über die Deutschen. Eine kleine Kulturgeschichte
Erudite and entertaining

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Savoy Blues. Ein Fall für Sebastian Fink
Swing – but at your peril

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Briefe an Hitler. Ein Volk schreibt seinem Führer. Unbekannte Dokumente aus Moskauer Archiven
Hitler’s macabre postbag

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Über Nacht
A desire to love and live and the fragility of both

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Meier mit Y
Something refreshingly different

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Die morawische Nacht
The novel to bring Peter Handke back to an English-language readership? We believe so.

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Stein bedeutet Liebe. Regina Ullmann und Otto Gross
‘ Reading your book brings me so much joy that I can absorb it only bit by bit.’ Rainer Maria Rilke to Regina Ullmann

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Eine sehr kleine Frau
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a little boy walked beside his grandmother

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Der lange Gang über die Stationen
In tune with nature, at odds with changing times

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Die Leute Von Seldwyla
Homeric Prose of Switzerland

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Der Vogel, der spazieren ging
A rich exploration of what it is to be Jewish today and also pre-Second World War – a striking, remarkable read

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Nacht ohne Schatten
A successful crime series awaiting discovery

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Die kleinen Gärten des Maestro Puccini
Madame Butterfly? Not the only woman to capture Puccini’s fancy …

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Nachricht an alle
A futuristic novel of political intrigue and violence – is this what the world has in store?

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Nach Hause Schwimmen
A delightfully serious, yet comic, novel on growing up and accepting that life is there for living

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Lea
‘A treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time.’ – Isabel Allende on Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon

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Rudolf Augstein. Biographie
The man hailed by some as ‘journalist of the century’ – a pioneer in investigative journalism in post-War Germany

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Drachen der Finsternis
Beautiful, but oh-so-dangerous … This tale of dragons and Nepal attests to a young writer going from strength to strength

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Land
The smell of the sea in one’s nostrils

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Nirgendwo sonst
Come you back to Mandalay …

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Ein Paar
What a lovely couple they make!

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Im Fluss
Beware the Siren call …

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Weit fort
Can one step over the shadows of the past?

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Das Wochenende
‘Beautiful, disturbing ... ensnares both heart and mind.’ – Los Angeles Times on The Reader

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Die Offenbarung
Beware Pandora’s box – the new novel from the writer of Brother of Sleep

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Ernst Jünger. Ein Jahrhundertleben
The fascinating figure behind Storm of Steel

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Der Bruder. Ein Fall für den Frisör
Darling, make me irresistible

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Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten
The latest from one of Germany’s leading writers for children

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Anatolin
‘Treichel’s poetic genius allows the fertile ambiguities that Grass and Heinrich Böll planted so adroitly a generation ago to water the guilt and obsession of this particular family.’ – Los Angeles Times Book Review on Lost