NBG Choices

A selection of new books in English translation, recommended for reviewers, booksellers, literary festivals and readers. Click here for the brand new selection of NBG Choices - Spring 2018.

Non-fiction

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The Expulsion of the Other Byung-Chul Han

Translated by Tony Crawford

 Polity Press
Spring 2018
Judenmord cover
Judenmord: Art and the Holocaust in Postwar Germany Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius

Translated by Tony Mathews

 Reaktion Books
Spring 2018
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Berlin 1936: Sixteen days in August Oliver Hilmes

Translated by Jefferson Chase

 The Bodley Head (UK) / Other Press (US)
Spring 2018
Hoesle - cover
A Short History of German Philosophy
Princeton University Press
Kermani - cover
Upheaval: The Refugee Trek through Europe
Polity Press
Rüdiger Safranski - cover
Goethe
Liveright / W.W. Norton (US)
Ulrich Raulff - cover
Farewell to the Horse
Allen Lane
Khalaf - cover
The Girl Who Beat Isis
Square Peg
Read our Review
Neumann - cover
Radicalized: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West
I B Tauris
Gmurr - cover
The Paperclip Test
Vintage
Hoghe - cover
Bandoneon: Working with Pina Bausch
Oberon Books
Stach - cover
Kafka: The Early Years
Princeton University Press
Jelinek - cover
Charges (The Supplicants)
Seagull Books

Modern Classics

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Breakout at Stalingrad Heinrich Gerlach

Translated by Peter Lewis

 Head of Zeus
Spring 2018
seventh cross cover
The Seventh Cross Anna Seghers

Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo

 Virago (UK) / NYRB Classics (US)
Spring 2018
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The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Translated by J.A. Underwood

 Penguin Classics
Spring 2018
Huch - cover
The Last Summer
Peirene Press
Günter Grass - cover
Of All That Ends
Harvill Secker (UK) / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US)
Werner - cover
Cold Shoulder
Dalkey Archive
Seghers - cover
Crossing: A Love Story
Dialogos Books

Crime Thriller

Kutscher - cover
The Silent Death
Sandstone Press
Sacha Batthyany - cover
A Crime in the Family
Quercus
Raabe - cover
The Trap
Pan MacMillan (UK) / Grand Central Publishing (US)
Giordano - cover
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
Bitter Lemon Press

Non-fiction

expulsion of the other han cover
The Expulsion of the Other Byung-Chul Han

Translated by Tony Crawford

 Polity Press
Judenmord cover
Judenmord: Art and the Holocaust in Postwar Germany Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius

Translated by Tony Mathews

 Reaktion Books
berlin 1936 hilmes cover
Berlin 1936: Sixteen days in August Oliver Hilmes

Translated by Jefferson Chase

 The Bodley Head (UK) / Other Press (US)
Hoesle - cover
A Short History of German Philosophy
Princeton University Press
Kermani - cover
Upheaval: The Refugee Trek through Europe
Polity Press
Rüdiger Safranski - cover
Goethe
Liveright / W.W. Norton (US)
Ulrich Raulff - cover
Farewell to the Horse
Allen Lane
Khalaf - cover
The Girl Who Beat Isis
Square Peg
Read our Review
Neumann - cover
Radicalized: New Jihadists and the Threat to the West
I B Tauris
Gmurr - cover
The Paperclip Test
Vintage
Hoghe - cover
Bandoneon: Working with Pina Bausch
Oberon Books
Stach - cover
Kafka: The Early Years
Princeton University Press
Jelinek - cover
Charges (The Supplicants)
Seagull Books

Modern Classics

breakout at stalingrad cover
Breakout at Stalingrad Heinrich Gerlach

Translated by Peter Lewis

 Head of Zeus
seventh cross cover
The Seventh Cross Anna Seghers

Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo

 Virago (UK) / NYRB Classics (US)
simplicius simplicissimus cover
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Translated by J.A. Underwood

 Penguin Classics
Huch - cover
The Last Summer
Peirene Press
Günter Grass - cover
Of All That Ends
Harvill Secker (UK) / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US)
Werner - cover
Cold Shoulder
Dalkey Archive
Seghers - cover
Crossing: A Love Story
Dialogos Books

Crime Thriller

Kutscher - cover
The Silent Death
Sandstone Press
Sacha Batthyany - cover
A Crime in the Family
Quercus
Raabe - cover
The Trap
Pan MacMillan (UK) / Grand Central Publishing (US)
Giordano - cover
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
Bitter Lemon Press

Also Recommended

Hessel - cover
Walking in Berlin
Scribe Publications
Haderlap - cover
Angel of Oblivion
Archipelago Books

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