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  • Thomas Glavinic
    The Video Murderer
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    Amongst Loners von Christopher Kloeble
    Christopher Kloeble
    Amongst Loners
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    Just Another Day von Stefan Mühldorfer
    Stefan Mühldorfer
    Just Another Day
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  • Angelika Schrobsdorff
    You Are Not Like Other Mothers
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Thomas Glavinic
The Video Murderer
»I was asked to write everything down.« It is with this opening sentence that the first-person narrator begins his account of an Easter weekend,...
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Christopher Kloeble
Amongst Loners
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What constitutes a family today and who is actually part of it?

Angela and Erich are the parents, Simon and Katrin the children. Together ...

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Stefan Mühldorfer
Just Another Day
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Robert Ames is a 37-year-old insurance broker. He lives with his wife Kala and their son Jonathan in an unassuming house in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada).

One Friday...

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Angelika Schrobsdorff
You Are Not Like Other Mothers

"She was as complicated as a puzzle of several thousand parts, and I had to find these parts and put them together," says Angelika Schrobsdorff about her mother. The...

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Alex Capus
Munzinger Pasha
The skilfully interwoven tale of two journeys - one to Cairo, the other into the heart of a disillusioned man. This is the true story of Werner Munzinger, who ...
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John von Düffel
Swimming

Swimming is a special art. It is not only a sport or a way to stay afloat; it is also the most immediate experience of water and its variability. John von Düffel, author...

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Thomas Glavinic
The Video Murderer
»I was asked to write everything down.« It is with this opening sentence that the first-person narrator begins his account of an Easter weekend,...
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Thomas Glavinic
Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw
Vienna, 1910: Carl Haffner is playing the great Emanuel Lasker for the title of world chess champion. It is a seemingly impossible task, for Lasker has already held the title for...
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Barbara Honigmann
A Love Out of Nothing

Ultimately, this is the story of a father and daughter. Barbara Honigmann describes her childhood in East Berlin, the perpetual travelling back and forth between her separated...

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Barbara Honigmann
Story of a Child
'It's so hard to live in so many worlds at once. Nothing really seems to fit. I often wonder if you feel the same.' In the title story, a young Jewish woman born in...
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On the Night Train von Benno Hurt
Benno Hurt
On the Night Train
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Michael Kaltenbrach, a young lawyer, is travelling to Cologne to meet with a publishing house in the hope that they will take on his short stories. As the train rattles...

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What Ida Says von Odile Kennel
Odile Kennel
What Ida Says
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Louise was born and raised in Normandy, but now lives in Berlin. One day, quite by chance at a family funeral in Normandy, she meets a distant cousin - Ida - for...

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Michael Kleeberg
A Clean Death
Johann Ritter came to Berlin intending to acquire plenty of money, a large flat and a sports car, all within a year. In his opinion there were only two ways to go about it: ...
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Michael Kleeberg
A Northern Garden

Albert Klein fled Germany in the early 80s because of unrequited love. On his return twelve years later, the place strikes him as even more alien and depressing than before....

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Michael Kleeberg
Proteus the Pilgrim
"As long as I can remember, I've believed I was a divine being, or at the very least a special favourite of the gods. It was a long time before I realized that outside our four...
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Michael Kleeberg
The Communist of Montmartre
"All the world is a stage, and everyone plays his role. I don't care what the play is called, as long as I'm in the limelight." This may not be quite the right attitude for a...
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Michael Kleeberg
The Crying Animal

"The Crying Animal" is not a travelogue in the conventional sense, but rather, as the author makes plain in the opening pages, a combination of "private travel chronicles,...

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Amongst Loners von Christopher Kloeble
Christopher Kloeble
Amongst Loners
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What constitutes a family today and who is actually part of it?

Angela and Erich are the parents, Simon and Katrin the children. Together ...

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A Knock At The Door von Christopher Kloeble
Christopher Kloeble
A Knock At The Door
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A knock at the door can herald many changes…

Christopher Kloeble tells stories of young people whose lives are abruptly altered. A scream rips...

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Usually All Very Fast von Christopher Kloeble
Christopher Kloeble
Usually All Very Fast
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For years, Albert has been visiting Fred during the holidays and at weekends, but they've never really grown close. Albert only ever called Fred Fred, never Father. Fred...

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Nights On the Edge of the Inner City von Tanja Langer
Tanja Langer
Nights On the Edge of the Inner City
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A book on sex and love and what we take for it

In the mid-eighties Eva is studying art history in West Berlin. The city is on the brink of a major upheaval, ...

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Tanja Langer
We'll Meet Again in the Hereafter

On November 21 st 1811, on the shores of Lake Wannsee near Potsdam, the writer and dramatist Heinrich von Kleist shot first Henriette Vogel and then himself.

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Martin Mosebach
A Long Night

Ludwig doesn't know who he is anymore. Since failing to qualify as a lawyer, he no longer feels in control of his own destiny. Yes, he soon finds employment as the manager of ...

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Martin Mosebach
The Turkish Woman

Although he has a brilliant career ahead of him, the young man from Frankfurt is melancholic for no apparent reason. Then he meets a young Turkish woman, with whom he...

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Just Another Day von Stefan Mühldorfer
Stefan Mühldorfer
Just Another Day
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Robert Ames is a 37-year-old insurance broker. He lives with his wife Kala and their son Jonathan in an unassuming house in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada).

One Friday...

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Katharina Neuschaefer
Norse Sagas
Reihe Hanser

From trolls, ogres and valkyries to Odin, Thor and Freya, Katharina Neuschaefer relates the stories of the mythical creatures and deities that make up the fabulous world of...

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Asta Scheib
Beware of Love

»Munich, that was home.« Here Therese enjoys a comfortable childhood. Her father runs a warehouse and a clothes factory; Thomas Mann and Sauerbruch are regular visitors to...

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The Quiet Child von Asta Scheib
Asta Scheib
The Quiet Child
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What if your child is not like other children...  

An inheritance enables Lukas and Paulina to realise a lifetime dream: at long last they can leave behind...

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Angelika Schrobsdorff
You Are Not Like Other Mothers

"She was as complicated as a puzzle of several thousand parts, and I had to find these parts and put them together," says Angelika Schrobsdorff about her mother. The...

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Lea Singer
A Life Half Lived

A novel about the life of Constanze Mozart - an absorbing account based on detailed research.

In retrospect, there are many who might envy her: imagining that it must...

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Lea Singer
A Fatal Passion
A dramatic love story set in Vienna at the end of the 19th century. Showing remarkable psychological insight, Lea Singer recounts a truly dramatic love story based on...
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Lea Singer
Four Shades of Fidelity

Salzburg 1935 - a hot summer. Three years before Austria's annexation, the festival city is promoting itself as a tranquil retreat. In Leopoldskron Castle, an assortment of...

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Antje Rávic Strubel
Tupolew 134
In her new novel, Antje Rávic Strubel gives us a highjacked plane and a difficult, if not impossible, quest for the truth. She has taken a real story as her inspiration: ...
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Antje Rávic Strubel
Adrift in Berlin
Berlin-Kreuzberg: One night looking out of the window of his flat, Daniel Stillmann, a maths student, watches the strange antics of an old man near the Admiral Bridge - and...
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Antje Rávic Strubel
Full Exposure
She leaves her country in 1987 in search of greater freedom. But the man she is supposed to marry waits for her in vain. Instead, she lives in New York City as an illegal...
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Snowed Under von Antje Rávic Strubel
Antje Rávic Strubel
Snowed Under
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Harrachov, a holiday resort in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Evy and Vera are sitting on the balcony. They would like to go skiing, but the ski lifts are shut down....
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The Russian Window von Dragan Velikic
Dragan Velikic
The Russian Window
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Belgrade, at the end of the 1990's. Rudi Stupar, a failed drama student, half-hearted scholar of German and full-time flâneur, is drifting aimlessly through life. When...

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Einstein On The Lake von Ulrich Woelk
Ulrich Woelk
Einstein On The Lake
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Did the great physicist hide his most secret papers at the bottom of Lake Templin before fleeing from Germany? Originally the Berlin Senate had intended to give the...
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Joana Mandelbrot And I von Ulrich Woelk
Ulrich Woelk
Joana Mandelbrot And I
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»Everything that happens to us is a mixture of chance and necessity, but the only thing we can rely on is chance.«

A professor of mathematics in ...

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Schrödinger's Bedroom von Ulrich Woelk
Ulrich Woelk
Schrödinger's Bedroom
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Erwin Schrödinger, the father of quantum mechanics, was an infamous bohemian and womaniser. So it is only natural that when Alex Gatlieb meets his new neighbour...
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Things We Said Today von Judith Zander
Judith Zander
Things We Said Today
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Western Pomeranian, 1999, in the small village of Bresekow. When old Frau Hanske dies, her daughter Ingrid flies in for the funeral with her family from Ireland. Ingrid had...

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Julius von Christian Zehnder
Christian Zehnder
Julius
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Julius is the story of a young man striking out on his own. It's also the story of the eponymous protagonist's friendship with Martin, a sports-mad French student....

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