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  • The Communist of Montmartre

    by Michael Kleeberg ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    Series Book 1 - ERIS gems
    In 1935 Paris, the French Communist Party faces a surreal dilemma: Moscow demands a black African delegate for its upcoming Festival of Peace, but none can be found—until a flamboyant vaudeville performer named Luciano di Lammermoor unexpectedly fits the part.With wit and quiet precision, Michael Kleeberg turns a historical farce into a pointed meditation on identity, ideology ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Man in Love

    A Novel

    by Martin Walser ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    For readers of Colm Toibin’s The Master and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, a witty, moving, tender novel of impossible love and the mysterious ways of art.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is so famous his servant auctions off snippets of his hair and children and adults recite from his many works by memory. When he was a young poet, his first novel, a story of love and romantic fervor ending in suicide ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Abel and Cain

    by Gregor von Rezzori ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer, Joachim Neugroschel, Marshall Yarbrough ...
    Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant volumeThe Death of My Brother Abel and its delirious sequel, Cain, constitute the magnum opus of Gregor von Rezzori’s prodigious career, the most ambitious, extravagant, outrageous, and deeply ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Gushing Fountain

    A Novel

    by Martin Walser ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle.In a provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

    by Rüdiger Safranski ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus ReviewsThis “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age.A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the ... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Crossing the Hudson

    A Novel

    by Peter Jungk ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    Gustav Rubin, a fur dealer in Vienna, flies to New York to spend the summer with his wife and two young children in a lake house north of the city. When he arrives late at JFK, he is met by his opinionated, unrelenting mother, Rosa. They rent a car and set out for Lake Gilead. But Gustav loses his way, and son and mother end up on the wrong side of the river. Trying to find the right route north, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Madonna on the Moon

    by Rolf Bauerdick ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    An award-winning journalist transforms his lifelong fascination with the world of the Gypsies into fiction with this exuberant, deeply enchanting debut novel—both whimsical and suspenseful—winner of the European Book Prize, and translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide.November 1957: As Communism spreads across Eastern Europe, strange events are beginning to upend daily life in Baia ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • TALK BACK!

    A Family Discussion about Right-Wing Populism, Values and Political Engagement

    Edited by Martin Roth ...
    "I'm stunned by the silence," says Martin Roth - which is why he chose to conduct these conversations with his three adult children. The great European Martin Roth is convinced that animated discourse between people of different generations is one way of effectively thwarting the crisis of societal values; a way to rebuild trust in the awareness of one's own history and to pass this on to future ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • "Dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times

    The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948

    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    by Vesa & Elias Canetti ...
    In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor suffering fromtuberculosis. Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Vienna to London, where they lead an impoverished and extremely complicated ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Goethe

    Life as a Work of Art

    by Rüdiger Safranksi ...
    Narrated by James Anderson Foster ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 25 min

    This sterling biography of Germany's greatest writer presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as if we are seeing him for the first time.The work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has reverberated through two and a half centuries, altering the course of literature in ways both grand and intimate. No other writer so completely captivated the intellectual life of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • The Stark Beauty of Last Things

    A Novel

    by Céline Keating ...
    The Stark Beauty of Last Things is set in Montauk, the far reaches of the famed Hamptons, an area under looming threat from a warming climate and overdevelopment. Now outsider Clancy, a thirty-six-year-old claims adjuster scarred by his orphan childhood, has inherited an unexpected legacy: the power to decide the fate of Montauk’s last parcel of undeveloped land.Everyone in town has a stake in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Marriage Box

    A Novel

    by Corie Adjmi ...
    Featured as a Goodreads Most Popular Book of May 2023 and Top 6 Jewish Books This Year, The Jewish ChronicleCasey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then she gets in trouble and her parents turn her whole world upside down by deciding to return to their roots, the Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD