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“anna seghers”

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  • Blood Money

    by Anna Seghers ...
    Translated by Lucy Jones ...
    A chilling novel about early Nazism in Germany through the eyes of a wrongfully accused young man, this novel from the 1930s provides a prescient look at the ways ordinary people are seduced by Fascism, to the point of betraying their neighbors.It’s the summer of 1932, and Johann Schulz is accused of killing a police officer during a demonstration. Wanted for murder, Schulz leaves the city to seek ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Transit

    by Anna Seghers, Heinrich Boll ...
    Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Seghers’s multilayered masterpiece ends up ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Seventh Cross

    by Anna Seghers, Thomas von Steinaecker ...
    Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    A revelatory World War II novel about a German prisoner of war fleeing for the border and encountering a variety of Germans, good and bad and indifferent, along his way. Now available in a new English translation.The Seventh Cross is one of the most powerful, popular, and influential novels of the twentieth century, a hair raising thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Dead Girls' Class Trip

    Selected Stories

    by Anna Seghers ...
    Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    A new translation of the best and most provocative short stories by the author of Transit and The Seventh Cross.Best known for the anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit, Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her life reflect her political activism as well as her deep engagement with myth; they are also some of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Book 1 of the Gereon Rath Mystery Series

    by Volker Kutscher ...
    Translated by Niall Sellar ...
    Series Book 1 - Gereon Rath Mystery Series
    THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN"Cabaret on cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars." --NPRBabylon Berlin is the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher that centers on Detective Gereon Rath caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, and murder in Berlin as Germany teeters on the edge ... Read more

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  • The Door

    by Magda Szabo ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"An NYRB Classics OriginalThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. ... Read more

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  • Flights

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    by Olga Tokarczuk ...
    Translated by Jennifer Croft ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREA visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)"A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and ... Read more

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    by Sigrid Nunez ...
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    by Viet Thanh Nguyen ...
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    Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on MaxWinner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First NovelWinner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyOne of TIME’s 100 Best... ... Read more

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  • The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)

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    by James McBride ...
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  • A Gentleman in Moscow

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    by Amor Towles ...
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  • The Silent Death

    A Gereon Rath Mystery

    by Volker Kutscher ...
    Translated by Niall Sellar ...
    Series Book 2 - Gereon Rath Mystery Series
    The Silent Death: A Gripping Historical Mystery Set in the Shadows of 1930s Berlin"[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction."—The New York TimesVolker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with The Silent Death as a police inspector investigates crime and corruption in a ... Read more

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