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Product Description: Moritz Wenk is an averagely unsuccessful painter, and Judith Wenk, a dental hygienist, are a close and harmonius couple. During a week in a very hot summer, in perhaps Zurich, he's found work cutting out and painting shop-window dummies for a costume rental firm...read more
By Michael Hofmann (trans)

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9781943150007 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 10, 2016, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Moritz Wenk is an averagely unsuccessful painter, and Judith Wenk, a dental hygienist, are a close and harmonius couple.

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Product Description: Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna: giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric, and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry offered by her wealthy father, he thinks he can mold Ganna into what he wants...read more

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9781590179222 | New York Review of Books, January 26, 2016, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair.

Product Description: This book offers a new selection of essays from Michael Hofmann - one of our most exceptional critics of contemporary literature. "Superb and invigorating." (Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph). In these thirty essays, Hofmann brings his signature wit and sustained critical mastery to a poetic, penetrating, and candid discussion of the writers and artists of the last hundred years...read more

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9780374535759 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 1, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This book offers a new selection of essays from Michael Hofmann - one of our most exceptional critics of contemporary literature.
9780415002363, titled "Japanese at Your Fingertips" | Routledge, June 1, 1988, cover price $3.95 | also contains Japanese at Your Fingertips

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By Michael Hofmann (trans)

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9780811224871 | New Directions, September 29, 2015, cover price $14.95

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9781590517048 | Other Pr Llc, March 3, 2015, cover price $14.95

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9781628970500 | Dalkey Archive Pr, November 18, 2014, cover price $14.95

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9781590516966 | Other Pr Llc, November 4, 2014, cover price $22.00

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Product Description: The complete Dream Songs-hypnotic seductive masterful-as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berrymans Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest saddest most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century They are also more simply the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry Henry falls in and out of love and is in and out of the hospital he sings of joy and desire and of beings at odds with the world He is lustful he is depressed And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth if he had a hundred years Henry despairs in Dream Song 29 more weeping sleepless in all them time Henry could not make good This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 and their continuation His Toy His Dream His Rest which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969 The Dream Songs are witty and wild an account of madness shot through with searing insight winking word play and moments of pure soaring elation This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equale...read more
By John Berryman and Michael Hofmann (introduced by)

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9780374534554, titled "The Dream Songs: Poems" | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 21, 2014), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The complete Dream Songs-hypnotic seductive masterful-as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berrymans Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest saddest most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century They are also more simply the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry Henry falls in and out of love and is in and out of the hospital he sings of joy and desire and of beings at odds with the world He is lustful he is depressed And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth if he had a hundred years Henry despairs in Dream Song 29 more weeping sleepless in all them time Henry could not make good This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 and their continuation His Toy His Dream His Rest which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969 The Dream Songs are witty and wild an account of madness shot through with searing insight winking word play and moments of pure soaring elation This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled

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Product Description: An extraordinary collection of poetry and prose from the master of German expressionismThe first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912)―written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after―with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set Benn on the path to celebrity and notoriety...read more
By Michael Hofmann (trans)

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9780374175375 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 5, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An extraordinary collection of poetry and prose from the master of German expressionismThe first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912)―written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after―with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set Benn on the path to celebrity and notoriety.

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Product Description: English summary: The proportion of young people in the total population of Turkey is three times as high as in Germany. A quarter of the young people in Germany have an immigrant background. What stories are hidden behind these numbers? How are young people and their concerns represented in the media and in politics? The papers in this volume address the issue of young people in a Turkish-German context in different ways...read more
By Yasemin Dayioglu-yucel (editor), Michael Hofmann (editor) and Seyda Ozil (editor)

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9783847101918 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, November 1, 2013, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: English summary: The proportion of young people in the total population of Turkey is three times as high as in Germany.

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Product Description: Interkulturalität ist ein Paradigma, das in den letzten Jahren immer mehr an Aktualität gewonnen hat. Rüdiger Sareika hat während seiner Arbeit an der Evangelischen Akademie Schwerte-Villigst dieses Thema in innovativer und engagierter Weise in die Diskussion gebracht und unzählige Anregungen vermittelt – und dies vor vielen anderen...read more
By Michael Hofmann (corporate author)

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9783631624227 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 10, 2013, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Interkulturalität ist ein Paradigma, das in den letzten Jahren immer mehr an Aktualität gewonnen hat.

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The Emperor's Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful and moving look at a decaying society and its journey through the War and its devastating aftermath, and the story of the erosion of one man's desperate faith in the virtues of a simple life.
By Michael Hofmann (trans)

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9781847087348 | Granta Books, January 3, 2013, cover price $21.30 | About this edition: The Emperor's Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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9780811221276 | New Directions, April 22, 2013, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition at the risk of his own ruin...read more

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9781590511152 | Other Pr Llc, May 1, 2004, cover price $18.00

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9781590515778 | Reprint edition (Other Pr Llc, December 4, 2012), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty.

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9781590513248 | Other Pr Llc, August 14, 2012, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Ziel der Publikation ist es, den aktuellen Erkenntnisstand zum Themenbereich Unternehmensberatung im Sinne eines "state of the field" aufzuarbeiten und sowohl theoretische als auch empirische Entwicklungsperspektiven aufzuzeigen, die einer Weiterentwicklung der allgemeinen Forschungsdisziplin und der konkreten Beratungspraxis dienlich sind...read more
By Michael Hofmann (editor)

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9783642484162 | Reprint edition (Physica Verlag, March 29, 2012), cover price $69.99 | About this edition: Ziel der Publikation ist es, den aktuellen Erkenntnisstand zum Themenbereich Unternehmensberatung im Sinne eines "state of the field" aufzuarbeiten und sowohl theoretische als auch empirische Entwicklungsperspektiven aufzuzeigen, die einer Weiterentwicklung der allgemeinen Forschungsdisziplin und der konkreten Beratungspraxis dienlich sind.

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Product Description: Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women―and he can't make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury...read more

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9781847085092 | Granta Books, April 5, 2012, cover price $25.10 | About this edition: Alex has spent the majority of his adult life torn between two very different women-and he can't make up his mind.

Paperback:

9781590513941 | Italian edition edition (Other Pr Llc, March 22, 2011), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women—and he can’t make up his mind.

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9781522693512 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 14, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women―and he can't make up his mind.

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By Michael Hofmann (editor)

Hardcover:

9780393060645 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 16, 2012, cover price $39.95

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By Yasemin Dayioglu-yucel (editor), Michael Hofmann (editor) and Seyda Ozil (editor)

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9783899719338 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, November 1, 2011, cover price $50.00

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Product Description: Im öffentlichen Dienst vollzieht sich eine ständige Entwicklung mit dem Ziel, eine effektivere und effizientere Leistung zu ermöglichen. Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Einführung eines neuen Tarifvertrages, dem Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst (TVöD), der in diesem Sektor eine leistungsorientierte Bezahlung erst ermöglichte...read more

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9783842868687 | Diplomica Verlag Gmbh, October 5, 2011, cover price $59.90 | About this edition: Im öffentlichen Dienst vollzieht sich eine ständige Entwicklung mit dem Ziel, eine effektivere und effizientere Leistung zu ermöglichen.

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By Michael Hofmann (trans)

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9780811219259 | New Directions, June 29, 2011, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Muller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania.

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9780810115972 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Muller takes an unflinching look at the alienation and complexity of a rapidly changing Eastern Europe, focusing on a group of young friends in Ceaucescu's Romania.

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By Michael Hofmann (trans)

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9781935554042 | 1 edition (Melville Pub House, March 30, 2010), cover price $16.95

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By Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann (trans) and Geoff Wilkes (other contributor)

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9781935554271 | Reprint edition (Melville Pub House, October 19, 2010), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: Daniel Loew, a poet based in London, has been told since childhood that one day he would become his wealthy uncle’s only heir. When he learns of his uncle’s death, in Caracas, a few weeks have passed. A close friend of his uncle’s tells Loew that he alone has been named executor of the will and blocks Loew from receiving his inheritance...read more
By Michael Hofmann (trans)

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9781906548209 | Pushkin Pr Ltd, June 1, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Daniel Loew, a poet based in London, has been told since childhood that one day he would become his wealthy uncle’s only heir.

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