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Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40In this new novel Gunter Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. He explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest... -
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.04THE TIN DRUM presents Hitler's rise and fall through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers become symbolic of the dark forces dominating the German nation in the period. Like Thomas... -
Cat and Mouse Gunter Grass 9780749394806
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of both discomfort and distress - fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers... -
Dog Years by Gunter Grass 9780749394509
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $37.87In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the... -
Of All That Ends by Gunter Grass 9781784703684
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass 9780099507598
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $34.61Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris.It... -
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Crabwalk by Gunter Grass 9780571216529 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $4.97In this new novel Gunter Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. He explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest... -
Gunter Grass: El Taller de Las Metamorfosis by Nicole Casanova 9788474320954
Booksplease Price: $33.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474320954Author Nicole CasanovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Living Statue: A Legend by Günter Grass 9780811238106
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.02At the end of the 1980s, a writer who very much resembles Gunter Grass passes through East Germany on a book tour and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor statues. He invites... -
Gunter Grass and the Genders of German Memory - From The Tin Drum to Peeling the Onion and Beyond by Timothy B. Malchow 9781640140851
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Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home by Alexander Wolff
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.42'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' Philippe Sands'Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever... -
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.87Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic.The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed,... -
Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy by Karl Jaspers
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.54One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92'An intense, courageous novel, equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett' The New York TimesPart detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering... -
100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life by Joshua Prager
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $31.54An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years traces the passages of life from age one to one hundred through quotations from the world's greatest writers. Moving year by year, with surprising and... -
The Death of Mr. Baltisberger by Bohumil Hrabal 9780810127012
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $30.39Originally published as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal's considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising... -
Concentric Circles: A Chronicle of Steidl Publishers by Monte Packham
RRP: $40.46Booksplease Price: $29.89"Gerhard's like a Communist. You have to go into the salt mines with him. If you're willing to go there then you're like brothers in arms and he'll do what needs be." Robert Polidori In August 2008... -
The Holligan by Rudolph Nassauer 9781853981586
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.02Originally published in 1960 by Peter Owen, The Hooligan is a masterful psychological exploration of the making of a Nazi. Andreas Febler, the Head Clerk of the Town Council struggles with his own... -
Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist... -
A Widow For One Year by John Irving 9780552997966
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'This is the story of Ruth Cole. It... -
Illusions (Faber Editions): with an introduction by Megan Nolan by Ruth Rehmann 9780571396580
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40'The rediscovery of this lost classic will shift perceptions of German literature in the English speaking world. Mercurial, seductive, smart and startling.' - Megan NolanFour office workers, one... -
The Global Game: Writers on Soccer by John C. Turnbull 9780803210783
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planet's prevalent cultural expressions,... -
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A Widow For One Year by John Irving 9780552997966 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $5.71'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom.'This is the story of Ruth Cole. It... -
From the Berlin Journal by Max Frisch
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $37.01Max Frisch (1911 91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the... -
Lamentations of Zeno: A Novel by Ilija Trojanow
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.78Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid... -
The Ballad of the Last Guest by Peter Handke 9780374616151
RRP: $54.72Booksplease Price: $38.39Gregor returns home from another continent. The landscape, formerly dotted with small villages, has been absorbed into the outskirts of a large city, both familiar and foreign at the same time. His... -
The Second Sword: A Tale from the Merry Month of May, and My Day in the Other Land: A Tale of Demons: Two Novellas by Peter Handke 9780374601447
RRP: $54.72Booksplease Price: $51.69The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two new novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Handke's last work of fiction, The Fruit Thief... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.68Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
Campo Santo by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. SebaldWhen W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them... -
Mr. Zed's Reflections Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9780857422248
RRP: $38.08Booksplease Price: $35.11One should always only adhere to what he doesn't say. Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the world's most influential and internationally... -
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Julian Preece
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.70"Brisk [and] forceful." Sight & Sound "Lucidly argued." Total Film Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schloendorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German... -
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The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans by Dagmar Barnouw 9780253220400 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $2.98"This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw's critique of the 'enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on... -
Repetition by Peter Handke
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. SebaldFilip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing... -
From the Berlin Journal Max Frisch 9781803092140
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $37.01The daily journal of a giant of German literature, touching subjects ranging from everyday life to the political and social conditions in East Germany as viewed from West Berlin. Max Frisch... -
Poppies in Translation by Sujata Bhatt
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.11Indonesia, South Africa, Estonia, Lithuania, Shetland, Nicaragua: many worlds meet in these poems as nature dyes Sujata Bhatt's many languages with its own hues. The real merges with the surreal,... -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let... -
Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books... -
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers 9780349010670
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $11.78A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, The Seventh Cross is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. 'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the... -
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers 9780349010410
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an important novel, but an important historical document... -
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780141184999
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.30Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by...