Billiards at Half-Past Nine
By: Heinrich Böll , Patrick Bowles
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Heinrich Boll's well-known, vehement opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of Rob…
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1. Auto-da-Fé
By: Elias Canetti , Τζένη Μαστοράκη , C.V. Wedgwood
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
"Auto-da-Fé" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Vienna bet… read more
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"Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"The business friend did not recognize the sewerman, which was not surprising as the man's face was no more than a shining turd."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
2. After the Wall
By: Jana Hensel , Jefferson Chase
3.41
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
Jana Hensel was thirteen on November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall fell. In all the euphoria o… read more
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3. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton
2.67
Format: 166 pages,
G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more
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4. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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5. Les jeux sont faits
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
- Il m'a empoisonnee ? - Eh oui, madame. - Mais pourquoi ? pourquoi ? - Vous le geniez, repond la v… read more
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6. Mephisto
By: Klaus Mann , Robin Smyth
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann's son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War… read more
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7. Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.
By: Ulrich Plenzdorf
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
Der 17-jahrige Edgar Wibeau nimmt einen Streit mit seinem Vorgesetzten zum Anlass, seine Lehre in e… read more
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8. Visitation
By: Susan Bernofsky , Jenny Erpenbeck
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck's gr… read more
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9. View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
By: Wisława Szymborska , Stanisław Barańczak , Clare Cavanagh
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in wh… read more
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10. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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11. Billiards at Half-Past Nine
By: Heinrich Böll , Patrick Bowles
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
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12. Lieutenant Gustl
By: Arthur Schnitzler
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the centur… read more
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13. Cat and Mouse
By: Günter Grass , Ralph Manheim
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple… read more
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14. The Sot-Weed Factor
By: John Barth
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factorhas acquired… read more
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15. Der letzte Weynfeldt
By: Martin Suter
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Adrian Weynfeldt, Mitte funfzig, Junggeselle, grossburgerlicher Herkunft, Kunstexperte bei einem in… read more
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16. The Eustace Diamonds (Palliser, #3)
By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland , Stephen Gill
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into po… read more
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17. The Confusions of Young Törless
By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more
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18. Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten
By: Erich Kästner
3.43
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Erich Kastner kennen viele nur als Autor von Kinder- und Jugendbuchern. Dass er auch zeitkritische … read more
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19. The Tin Drum
By: Günter Grass
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wield… read more
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20. The Emperor's Tomb
By: Joseph Roth , John Hoare
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful … read more
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22. The German Lesson
By: Siegfried Lenz , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is one day assigned to write a routine German … read more
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23. Lea
By: Pascal Mercier , Peter Bieri
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Die achtjahrige Lea hat sich nach dem Tod der Mutter in eine eigene Welt zuruckgezogen, zu der auch… read more
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24. Der Untertan
By: Heinrich Mann
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"Hurraahhhh!!! Da kommt der Kaiser!!!" Diederich Hessling, ein ewig deutsches Thema. Kurt Tucholsky… read more
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25. Berlin Alexanderplatz
By: Alfred Döblin
4.10
Format: None pages,
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anstandig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anstandig… read more
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26. Herzog
By: Philip Roth , Saul Bellow
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life… read more
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27. Tersi ve Yüzü
By: Albert Camus , Tahsin Yücel
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Brice Parain, sik sik, yazdiklarimin en iyisini bu kucuk kitabin icerdigini ileri surer. (...) Hay… read more
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28. The Third Wedding
By: Costas Taktsis , Κώστας Ταχτσής
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
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29. Homo Faber
By: Max Frisch
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Walter Faber, engineer, is a man for whom only the tangible, calculable, verifiable exists. Dubbed … read more
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30. The Noise of Time
By: Julian Barnes
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first … read more
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