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My Father's Country
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.95In this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century. On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for treason for his part in the July Plot to kill Hitler. Eleven days later, he... more...
The Confusions of Young Torless
Penguin Group US 2001; US$ 13.00Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless , published in 1906 while he was a student, uncovers the bullying, snobbery, and vicious homoerotic violence at an elite boys academy. Unsparingly honest in its depiction of the author's tangled... more...
The Weekend
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they?ve taken since their youth. But this isn?t just any reunion, and their conversations about the old days aren?t your typical reminiscences: After twenty-four... more...
The Kingdom of Light
Random House Group Ltd 2009; US$ 10.67For fans of Dan Brown's Inferno , a sensational Italian thriller starring Dante Alighieri as lead detective. Florence, August 1300. On the banks of the river Arno, a war galley is found with the entire crew dead inside. Dante Alighieri, Prior to the City, suspects poison but the only clue is a mysterious mechanical device. Dante suspects... more...
Sorry
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95One. Two. Three. That?s all it takes to drive the nail into her head, to leave her hanging on the wall. She deserved to die. Now all he needs is absolution for his sins, and he knows just the people who can help. We know what you should say. We say what you want to hear. Kris, Tamara, Wolf, and Frauke. Four young friends with too much time on... more...
Stabat Mater
Profile 2011; US$ 15.98The female musicians of the Instituto della Pietà play from a gallery in the church, their faces half hidden by metal grilles. They live segregated from the world. Cecilia, is a violinist who, during anguished, sleepless nights, writes letters to the mother she never knew, haunted by her and hating her by turns. She eats little and cannot sleep.... more...
Auschwitz
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableAt the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable... more...
The Psychology of Love
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 12.99Freud?s landmark writings on love and sexuality?including the famous case study of Dora? newly translated and in one volume for the first time This original collection brings together the most important writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud?s discussions of the ways in which sexuality... more...
Perlmann's Silence
Atlantic Books Ltd 2011; US$ 10.19In a quiet seaside town near Genoa, experts are gathering for a linguistics conference. One speaker, Philipp Perlmann is recently widowed and, struggling to contend with his grief, is unable to complete his keynote address. As the hour approaches, an increasingly desperate Perlmann decides to plagiarize the work of Leskov, a Russian colleague who... more...
In A Dark Wood
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableA magnificently ambitious and enthralling novel that confirms Möring?s place as one of the most significant European novelists now at work. more...









