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Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'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... -
The Radio Family by Ingeborg Bachmann
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.31Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of post-war German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Influenced by Hans Weigel and the legendary literary circle Gruppe... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780811228725
Booksplease Price: $20.23In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between... -
War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780857425324
Booksplease Price: $16.48Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War... -
The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780810127548
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98These unfinished novels were intended to follow her widely acclaimed Malina in a Proustian cycle to be entitled Todesarten, or Ways of Dying. Through the tales of two women in postwar Austria,... -
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by Peter Wortsman 9780141198804
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting... -
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy 9780811229036
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.91A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But... -
Star 111 by Lutz Seiler 9781913505745
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.35Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger Shortlisted for the 2022 Prix Femina etranger #1 on the Spiegel Bestseller List November 1989... -
Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocratic. As a misfit in search of freedom, love and happiness,... -
Phantom Pain Wings Kim Hyesoon 9781916751200
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (USA)2024 Poetry Book Society Translation ChoiceKim Hyesoon here shapeshifts into birds as she explores trauma, grief and parting. Kim... -
Autobiography of Death Kim Hyesoon 9781916751286
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54Winner of the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize'I thought to myself that I needed to sing death, perform a rite for death, write death,... -
In Case of Loss by Lutz Seiler 9781913505783
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's beautifully... -
Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler 9781913505769
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian... -
Dear Ms. Schubert: Poems by Ewa Lipska by Ewa Lipska
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77The first complete English translation of Ewa Lipska's exciting "Dear Ms. Schubert" poemsEwa Lipska is one of Europe's most compelling and important poets, but relatively little of her recent work... -
Correspondence by Paul Celan 9780857426420
Booksplease Price: $21.92Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg... -
System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square Gert Jonke 9781564785503
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75Half philosopher and half clown-prince, Gert Jonke is Austria s comic gift to contemporary fiction.About the AuthorGert Jonke is counted among Austria's most important authors and dramatists. Among... -
Geometric Regional Novel by Gert Jonke
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.92An innovative satire on the process by which bureaucracy and official regimentation insidiously pervade society. In a deadpan, pseudo-scientific tone, the nameless narrator takes us on a tour of a... -
On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest: The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics by Urs Widmer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48The Lectures on Poetics Series at the University of Frankfurt VI has hosted many illustrious speakers at its lectern, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Theodor Adorno, and Heinrich Boll. At the beginning... -
Shift Sleepers by Dorothee Elmiger 9781803091822
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84A novel by a Swiss writer that features figures from all over Europe from different walks of life coming together in secret to talk through their experiences, hopes, and dreams. Somewhere deep in the... -
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 9780393923209
Booksplease Price: $21.72Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Susan Bernofsky's acclaimed new translation, accompanied... -
The King of China Tilman Rammstedt 9780857427311
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.40When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime-an all expenses paid holiday to any destination in the world-the eccentric old man arbitrarily chooses China,... -
The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country by Uwe Tellkamp
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a... -
I am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy 9781911508021
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.30A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination knows no limits. Whether telling of mystics,... -
Notebooks, Volume 1, 1998-99 Anselm Kiefer 9780857427045
Booksplease Price: $27.03"For a long time, it was not clear if I would become a writer or an artist," says Anselm Kiefer, whose paintings and sculptures have made him one of the most significant and influential artists of... -
Dracula Park by Dana Grigorcea 9781914518218
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In post-Communist Romania, on the border with Transylvania, the sleepy little town of B. is losing its young people to the West. A young painter returned from Paris and her eccentric great-aunt seem... -
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy 9781911508182
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.30Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here... -
Collected Poems by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.95Bernhard's Collected Poem is a key to understanding Bernhard's irascible black comedy found in virtually all of his writings-even down to his last will and testament. Beloved Austrian writer Thomas... -
In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz by Anselm Kiefer 9781803090382
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes. The only visual... -
The Trilogy of Surfaces and Invisiblities by Nora Gomringer 9781913958336
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39Combining the collections Monster Poems, Morbus and Fashions, Nora Gomringer's trilogy offers a modern anthropology. Gomringer shines a light on the all-too-human, plays with the superficial and... -
Poppies in Translation by Sujata Bhatt
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.20Indonesia, 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,... -
Intimate Ties: Two Novellas by Peter Wortsman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.71First published in 1911, Intimate Ties is Robert Musil's second book, consisting of two novellas, 'The Culmination of Love' and 'The Temptation of Silent Veronica.' Each revolves around a troubled... -
Ruth Beckermann Eszter Kondor 9783901644801
Booksplease Price: $10.89Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, who has been making films since the 1970s, has created an exciting and widely recognized body of essay and documentary films. Her work is both deeply personal and... -
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.43New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction,... -
Roma Artist Ceija Stojka Stephanie Buhmann 9783777442723
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $19.34This book presents the work of Ceija Stojka (1933 -2013), an Austrian Romni writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. Beginning in the 1980s, Stojka created over a... -
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.50Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part... -
Tools for Extinction by Denise Rose Hansen
Booksplease Price: $18.77Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection... -
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura by Christine Wunnicke 9780811226240
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an... -
The Scrapbook by Heather Clark 9781529946055
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.73An exhilarating debut novel about a life-changing romance in the long shadow of European history, inspired by the author's real discovery'Stunningly good' Julia Boyd'You won't be able to put it down'... -
Six Slovak Poets by Jan Buzassy 9781906570385
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.89Arc New Voices from Europe and Beyond: 6The sixth in a much-praised series of bi-lingual anthologies which focus on the 'smaller' languages of Europe, and an ideal introduction to the 'here and now'...