Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner's towering masterpi

The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller-better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes captivated by her intoxicating power. Through their nighttime adventures, the Steppenwolf experiences the decadent underbelly of the bourgeois society he always despised. Harry becomes a man...

Adelheids bester Freund Benni hat mal wieder nichts als Blödsinn im Kopf. (Blödsinn hoch zwei, wie Adelheids große Schwester immer sagt.) Und Adelheid hat alle Hände voll zu tun, das Schlimmste zu verhüten. Doch das geht oft gründlich schief. Wie zum Beispiel bei Bennis Versuch, seinen Opa mit Adelheids Oma zu verheiraten. Oder als Benni es sich in den Kopf gesetzt hat, Klassensprecher zu...

‘After the 24th’ is a collection of short stories and rhythmic prose about the war, a record of what we have experienced and are experiencing now. About those who are ready to die for freedom and those who are ready to survive at any cost, about lovers and lovers, about losses so bitter that you want to howl in pain, and about laughter that keeps you healthy.

A masterpiece of European imagination, The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new translation.

Nicht schon wieder! Adelheid muss eingreifen, nämlich immer dann, wenn ihr bester Freund Benni »Blödsinn hoch zwei« anstellt. Nach dem Motto »Rache ist (Blut-)Wurst« hat er es diesmal auf die zickige Sarah-Michelle abgesehen - und gerät prompt in den dicksten Schlamassel. Aber nicht nur Benni braucht dringend Adelheids Beistand, auch ihren Schwestern muss Adelheid aus der Klemme helfen. Dabei...

The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation, Kairos, and Go, Went, Gone. Things that Disappear is an exciting collection of interlinked miniature prose pieces that grapple with the phenomenon of disappearance on scales both large and small. The things that disappear in these pages range from everyday objects...

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer-'the starched collar,' as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of...

What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. The Maidan was an illumination of the human...

Viele Menschen sind sich sicher: Die Currywurst kommt aus Berlin und ist Ende der fünfziger Jahre entstanden. Uwe Timm erzählt uns eine andere Geschichte! Sie beginnt kurz vor Kriegsende 1945 in Hamburg. Die einsame Lena Brücker trifft auf den jungen Bootsmann Hermann Bremer - und will ihn nicht mehr loslassen.

Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice...

'Stories about the Motherland' is a bold, almost impudent book. Perhaps the first attempt to give a new - honest, accurate - description of our country in a long time. Real and false patriotism, living Russia and TV-screen Russia, power and people... Dmitry Glukhovsky takes up the most important, most sensitive topics of our life today and speaks about them in the tone in which political...