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  • Every Man Dies Alone

    Special 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Hans Fallada ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party—is based on a true story.It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Alone in Berlin

    by Hans Fallada ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    **THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan FurstInspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime thriller following one ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule**Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Twilight World

    A Novel

    by Werner Herzog ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    **“A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lie, illusion, and time that floats like an aromatic haze through Herzog’s vivid reconstruction of Onoda’s war.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog.**The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Stranger to Myself

    The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941–44

    by Willy Peter Reese ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II.Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead.Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

    by Elizabeth Taylor ...
    ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S “BEST 100 NOVELS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH”ONE OF WSJ’S “FIVE BEST: BOOKS ON THE GOLDEN YEARS”A “sharp and witty” story of loneliness, deception, and life in old age, by one of the most accomplished novelists of the 20th century (The Guardian).On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. “If it’s not nice ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • It's Getting Dark

    Stories

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A new story collection from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review) deftly evokes and explores the shifts that occur when the world grows dark.Snowed in at a remote artists’ residency in Vermont, Peter recalls another Christmas some thirty years earlier, when he met Marcia by chance on a trip to New York City. Only now, in this eerie, isolated place, does he begin to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Metamorphosis and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Every Man for Himself and God Against All

    A Memoir

    by Werner Herzog ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done beforeWerner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Kairos

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes—*“an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s)*WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURELONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSEAn epic storytel... ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Frog in the Throat

    by Markus Werner ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A bracing and darkly comic novel about a disgraced priest who finds himself haunted by his dead and disapproving father, this little-known classic of Swiss literature is impossible to forget.In a small town in Switzerland, Franz—ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose ends—is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Future of Truth

    by Werner Herzog ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    **Named a Best Book of 2025 by BloombergFrom legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our “post-truth” era?**For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook