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Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2012

Irish Journal by Heinrich Boll (travel memoir)

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Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz At a pub before evening mass, Heinrich Boll observes a shrewish woman harassing and threateni...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Death of the Adversary by Hans Keilson

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Translated from the German by Iva Jarosy “One cannot cut the lines of experience out of one’s face, like the rotten bits in an apple; one h...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The Violin of Auschwitz, Maria Angels Anglada

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Let me preface my review by stating that I have a particular interest in translated novels, and I'm always excited to see a novel by a C...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The Weather Fifteen Years Ago, Wolf Haas

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Translated by Stephanie Gilardi and Thomas S. Hansen “I think that's...pretty wonderful.  That someone even pays attention to the weath...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka

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Despite the title, there's much more to this novel than tractors.  It's really more of a fable about a family coming to a realizatio...
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