Product Description: A Runaway Horse by Martin Walser revolves around two friends, long separated, who meet on vacation. One is an idle teacher; the other an optimistic go-getter. The teacher discovers that one cannot avoid dealing head-on with life any better than one can reason with a runaway horse...read more

Product Description: This volume is made up of 22 stories and novellas, many published English in for the first time.

Product Description: A German novelist views small-town America with fresh eyes and provides a refreshing yet challenging read.

Product Description: A new novel by the author of Piranesi's Dream, and like that work, a virtuoso achievement.

Product Description: This book comprises two novels by the celebrated twentieth-century German author Gerhard Kopf: his first novel, Innerfar, and Bluff, or the Southern Cross. The first of these celebrates in fictional form the life and destiny of the hostess of the first meeting of the German literary Group 47, now fifty years old, which set an enduring stamp on the development of post-War German literature...read more

Product Description: This powerful and controversial novel, a bestseller in Germany when it first appeared in 1992, traces the childhood and youth of its protagonist Reinhold Fischer, set against the backdrop of the First World War and the rise, and eventual dominance, of the Third Reich...read more

Product Description: The German Library is a new series of the major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. The volumes have forewords by internationally known writers and introductions by prominent scholars. Here the English-speaking reader can find the broadest possible collection of poetic and intellectual achievements in new as well as great classic translations...read more

Richard, a German anthropologist who had travelled in Brazil during the Nazi era with a Jewish assistant, Leo Himmelfarb, and used Himmelfarb's work to make his own reputation, receives a letter from his former companion on his eightieth birthday and must come to terms with the fact that his life and career are based on a lie

The narrator, a German professor of 'Lusitanics,' the science of loss, is invited on a lecture tour of Malaysia, where he contemplates the past and the future

Product Description: This succinct book could be the key to a healthy and vital revival of the study of German language, literature and culture — and their intellectual and commercial riches — throughout the world. It describes in blunt terms the current crisis in German studies in the United States, as reflected primarily in the shrinking numbers of German-language students, and proposes reasonable solutions...read more

A lonely German painter living in the south of France is drawn into a web of mystery by an enigmatic woman who disappears after the death of a policeman