Product Description: Julia Franck's German-Book-Prize-winning novel, The Blindness of the Heart, was an international phenomenon, selling 850,000 copies in Germany alone and being published in thirty-five countries. Her newest work, Back to Back echoes the themes of The Blindness of the Heart, telling a moving personal story set against the tragedies of twentieth-century Germany...read more

Product Description: Like his contemporaries Neo Rauch and Michael Triegel, Leipzig painter Peter Krauskopf (born 1966) was a student of Arno Rink, who encouraged his students to pursue their own paths, however unfashionable they might seem. Following this advice, Krauskopf initially embraced classical landscape painting, which he soon pushed to the brink of abstraction...read more

Product Description: Winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices—a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son in a provincial German railway station in 1945, amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west...read more

Product Description: Acabada la segunda guerra mundial, cuando por fin cabe pensar en un futuro mejor, Helene abandona a su hijo de siete anos en el anden de una estacion de tren. Para entender las circunstancias que han podido llevarla a cometer algo asi, es necesario retrotraerse a la infancia de Helene, cuando vivia con su hermana Martha y sus padres en Bautzen; al penoso retorno del padre de la primera guerra mundial; a la locura que va aduenandose de su madre, que es judia; a la liberacion que sienten cuando, fallecido el padre, las dos hermanas se trasladan a casa de su adinerada tia Fanny, que vive en Berlin, y a como esta las introduce en la bohemia de los dorados anos veinte...read more

Product Description: Thomas Demand is one of the most celebrated contemporary photo artists. At first sight, Demand’s pictures, say of a kitchen, a copy shop, or a car park, seem like depictions of everyday places. Yet on closer inspection they turn out to be reconstructions of reality: Demand creates life-size environments made of paper and cardboard and accurate down to the smallest details, photographs these "re-creations" and then destroys them...read more