The major new edition of one of the most discussed books in GDR literature. The sensational book for the first time as the author wrote it. Thanks to a lucky find, we can rediscover this novel, which is currently causing international enthusiasm due to its amazing modernity, in an unabridged, politically unembellished version.

Because Franziska would rather choose 30 wild years instead of 70 good ones, the young and talented architect ignores the predetermined career path. One year she will work in the back provinces. She doesn't want to be satisfied with what's feasible, nor does she want to become cynical like Ben, the mysterious man she makes her lover.

When angry farmers thwart a seizure of livestock, everything in a small northern German town gets out of joint. Intrigues and political intrigues are hatched, no one can escape the game of money and power. – With this lively, deeply human novel, Hans Fallada creates a rich panorama of the domestic misery of the Weimar Republic.

Hans Fallada's Unpublished Stories. What a find: Of the stories that Hans Fallada wrote in the course of his life, more than twenty important texts are unknown to readers because they have never been published or were written directly for a magazine. They show the familiar author in top form and at the same time allow us to discover new sides of him. These stories spanning four decades lead...

His profile was posted publicly in the county seat when Johann Schulz sought refuge with relatives in a Rhenish-Hessian village. He is accused of killing a police officer at a demonstration. The bounty offered becomes a temptation for the villagers, and it is a matter of opinion who finally denounces the cop killer. Because the Nazis advertise in the village.

Feuchtwanger's world-famous family novel They are successful and respected: Gustav, the writer and senior boss, Martin, the businessman, and Edgar, the doctor. But then the unbelievable happened: The Nazis set up their regime with murder and fire. Home is slipping away from the Oppermanns. They have to leave their homes and their friends because they are of Jewish descent.

When Toni Muhr returned to Vienna from the war in the fall of 1916, Emperor Franz Joseph I was being ceremonially buried. Toni's world seems to be getting out of joint in other respects too: his employer quite obviously applied for the chemical patent himself, which he had offered him for sale in vain shortly before he was drafted into military service, and thus made incredible wealth during...

'This is the story of the musician Johannes Elias Alder, who at the age of twenty-two committed his life to death after deciding not to sleep any longer.' – With his debut novel about the life and death of a musical genius in an Austrian mountain village, Robert Schneider succeeded sensational world success, which was translated into over 30 languages, successfully filmed and became a...

Blue Salo is the most scandalous novel in the history of modern Russia. He was publicly burned and cursed, he was ardently admired and hated just as much. But he does not leave anyone indifferent. Siberia in 2048. In a secret laboratory, hidden between two huge hills, 'blue salo' began to be mined. This mysterious substance appears under the skin of clones of great writers: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy,...

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk...

This book compiles stories and novellas, written in America (with the exception of one) in the last decade. It's symbolic title That Strange Feeling of Freedom is not incidental.

The novel ‘Shoes of the Mother of God’ by the prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Mathios tells about one of the most painful tragedies of the 20th century in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder calls the ‘bloodlands’. This is a new edition of the work with new episodes.