In 1933, Nelly is four years old and lives in Landsberg. Nelly's family believes in Hitler's new...
Before the Feast
It’s the night before the feast in the village of Fürstenfelde (population: declining). The...
The Pharmacist
Hella has always suffered from a need to nurture lost souls, fostering a series of hopeless men...
The Passenger
With storm troppers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann is forced to flee through the back...
Alone in Berlin
According to Primo Levi, Alone in Berlin is "the greatest book ever written about the German...
The Collector of Worlds
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1891) was a British diplomat, also an explorer, linguist, spy,...
How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone
Saša Stanišić was born in 1978 in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, and has been living in Germany...
The Spoke
Friedrich Glauser (1896 – 1938), often compared to Simenon, is hailed as a legendary figure in...
The Reader
"A fine novel, as far above a Holocaust genre as Crime and Punishment is above the average...
Why We Took The Car
You're the most boring boy in the class. Your mum's in rehab and your dad has taken off with a...