'Wie gerne würden sie krepieren auf irgendeinem Feld! Der Name auf einem Kriegerdenkmal ist der Traum ihrer Pubertät.' Sie ist verroht, gefühlskalt, unmoralisch – jene 'Jugend ohne Gott', die Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938) von seinem Ich-Erzähler, einem namenlosen Lehrer, beschreiben lässt. Eingebettet in die Geschichte eines Mordes zeichnet Horváth gekonnt das verstörend eindrückliche Bild einer...

Untrennbar ist Franz Kafkas literarischer Ruhm mit seinen meisterhaften Erzählungen und Novellen verbunden. Getragen von einer geradezu magischen, schnörkellos und präzise verdichteten Sprache rührt seine Prosa an die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele, an verschüttet geglaubte Sehnsüchte und tief in uns allen wurzelnde Ängste.

Die drei Frauen dieser Erzählungen sind die Bäuerin Grigia, eine portugiesische Aristokratin und die Verkäuferin Tonka. Als fremd-vertraute Wesen werden sie den ihnen verbundenen Männern zum Schicksal. Die äußere Wirklichkeit bildet die Kulisse für eine unergründliche innere Wirklichkeit. Mit dem Erzählband »Drei Frauen«, einem konzentrierten Meisterwerk der literarischen Moderne, begibt sich...

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, 'The Hunger Games,' a fight to the death on live TV.

The final book in Suzanne Collins's worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy is now available in paperback.My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow...

The Castle's original manuscript was left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket or the luxury...

Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk follows the adventures of Josef Svejk, a boisterous and sometimes bumbling (or brilliantly subversive?) Czech soldier, as he navigates the trials of World War I. Thrust into the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army in 1914, Svejk, ‘one of the great characters of 20th century literature’ (New Republic), embarks on a wild trip through war-ravaged Europe as he...

As the frequency of air-raid sirens sending an apartment building’s residents to the basement increases, the neighbor children block out reality with the toys at hand—some imported from Western Europe and North America, others regional knockoffs or questionably improvised. Maša Kolanovic’s Underground Barbie brilliantly captures the vagaries of childhood as innocence gives way to the horrors of...

Anna Akhmatova was born near Odesa in 1889. Christened as Anna Gorenko, she adopted her penname from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo and lived most of her life in Saint Petersburg, the city with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married...

This novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg.

The Argentinean tango…a dance of passion and sensuality? A dance of passion and danger! A dance, which led a young ballerina into the embrace of a mysterious man, and opened the door for her into the captivating, exotic world of Argentinean bohemia… But suddenly her loved one disappears without a trace, and she sets off on searches for him. Searches which become more and more dangerous….