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Acrimony by Michael Hofmann 9780571145287
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Selected Poems by Michael Hofmann 9780571237746
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.66Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically... -
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Michael Hofmann
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'A great writer' Ali SmithNewly translated by Michael Hofmann, the touching final novel from the author of Child of All Nations'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy... -
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses by Michael Hofmann 9780374524784
RRP: $36.18Booksplease Price: $25.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524784Author Michael HofmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint -
One Lark, One Horse by Michael Hofmann 9780571342297
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one of the definitive bodies of work of the last... -
The Lost Writings by Franz Kafka
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades... -
The Dice Cup by John Fuller 9780701188368
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.05'In the dice cup, then, life becomes not a design but a wager; not an adventure but a game...'Brimming with brio and brilliance, John Fuller's latest collection comprises exquisite philosophical... -
Talking With Poets: Interviews with Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Michael Hofmann, and David Ferry. by Harry Thomas 9781590510957
RRP: $16.01Booksplease Price: $11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590510957Author Harry ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint < -
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist 9780811228343
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.32Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse-his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits he... -
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 9780241436240
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael HofmannKafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect,... -
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael HofmannFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds... -
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 9780143105244
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of... -
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction by Franz Kafka
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.31A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fictionStrange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this... -
A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin)It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a... -
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... -
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How Was It For You? by Carmen Reid 9780552155830 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.36Five years of gruelling IVF still haven't brought Pamela and Dave the baby they long for. Their marriage is now so rocky, they need hiking boots and crampons just to negotiate dinner. So they... -
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... -
Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grunbein
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grunbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, 'the best refuge was a closed mouth.' In... -
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80This 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... -
Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters by Joseph Roth 9781847083418
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The legendary Austro-Hungarian novelist and essayist, Joseph Roth, was born in Ukraine in 1894 and died tragically in Paris in 1939. These letters span the breadth of Roth's life, from the schoolboy... -
Pigeons on the Grass by Wolfgang Koeppen 9780811229180
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.50Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes... -
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $4.65'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family. ... -
Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka 9780811215695
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $16.37Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light... -
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.'As... -
The Legend Of The Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.00'One of the greatest European novelists of the century' Sunday Times Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, submerged at the bottom of society, he lives a... -
The Hothouse by Wolfgang Koeppen 9780811240000
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $15.93The Hothouse traces the tragic final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of his country after the Second World War. Following his... -
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.Based on the real life of an... -
John Berryman by John Berryman
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends. Prophetic and... -
The Twilight World: Discover the first novel from the iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog by Werner Herzog
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small island for twenty-nine years after the end of WWII1944: Lubang Island,... -
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes 9780571202256
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Ted Hughes's remarkable sequence of twenty-four tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997 and was celebrated in The Times by Michael Hofmann as 'one of the great... -
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a... -
The Sweet Indifference of the World by Peter Stamm 9781783785759
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A man and a woman meet in a park. The man has a story to share, one of a past relationship that contains echoes, similarities to the woman's life too remarkable to be considered just a coincidence... -
The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth by Joseph Roth 9780393323795
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.03Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achievement of his greatest novel, The Radetzky March... -
The Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780374534554
Booksplease Price: $17.85John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched... -
Confessions of Zeno (riverrun editions): a beautiful new edition of the Italian classic Italo Svevo 9781787474178
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S... -
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To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm 9781783783298 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.67After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas leaves the house. He walks down the street, and he keeps on walking. At first Astrid asks herself where... -
Ink Stone by Jamie McKendrick 9780571215324
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The best ink stones are slates from Chinese riverbeds, but in the long history of their use these have all been found. As one expert writes, 'the better the stone, the smaller and more consistent the... -
To the Back of Beyond Peter Stamm 9781783783304
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas walks out the front door. Thomas walks up the street. Thomas keeps walking. Astrid gradually realizes...