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  • Traveling in Place

    A History of Armchair Travel

    by Bernd Stiegler ...
    Translated by Peter Filkins ...
    Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explored and experienced a different place or time without ever leaving her seat. No passport, no currency, no security screening required—the luxury of ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book Against Death

    by Elias Canetti ...
    Translated by Peter Filkins ...
    The Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti all his life declared himself a “mortal enemy” of death—and here, in English at last, is his landmark book on the subjectThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Panorama

    A Novel

    by H. G. Adler, Peter Demetz ...
    Translated by Peter Filkins ...
    Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and people soon to be destroyed, as seen through the eyes of the young Josef Kramer. It moves from the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Wall

    A Novel

    by H. G. Adler ...
    Translated by Peter Filkins ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYCompared by critics to Kafka, Joyce, and Musil, H. G. Adler is becoming recognized as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century fiction. Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti wrote that “Adler has restored hope to modern literature,” and the first two novels rediscovered after his death, Panorama and The Journey, were acclaimed as ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Journey

    A Novel

    by H. G. Adler ...
    Translated by Peter Filkins ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Here is “a rich and lyrical masterpiece”–notes Peter Constantine–the first translation of a lost treasure by acclaimed author H. G. Adler, a survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Written in 1950, after Adler’s emigration to England, The Journey was ignored by large publishing houses after the war and not released in Germany until 1962. Depicting the Holocaust in a unique and deeply moving way, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Water / Music

    by Peter Filkins ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
    A diverse display of formal dexterity, narrative power, and lyrical resonance, Peter Filkins's latest collection of poems explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and the human.Exploring the space between nature and culture, the poems of Water / Music anchor themselves in the timely and the timeless. Rich and diverse in their formal intricacy, they move with ease from narrative ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • H. G. Adler

    A Life in Many Worlds

    by Peter Filkins ...
    The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and scholarly career to telling the story of those who perished in over two dozen books of fiction, poetry, history, sociology, and religion. And yet for much ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The View We're Granted

    by Peter Filkins ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
    These poems consider large events, such as 9/11 and the Holocaust, as well as everyday concerns like quilting, ice skating, or the beauty of a stand of sugar maples in winter.Co-Winner of the Sheila Motton Book Award of the New England Poetry ClubIn the pivotal poem “Marking Time,” which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkins’s fourth collection of poetry, the speaker reflects on the ... Read more

    $20.49 USD