Philip Boehm

Franz Kafka

A new translation of Kafka's letters to his Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, includes materials previously unpublished as well as some of her letters and essays

Letters to Milena

Herta Müller

The Nobel Prize-winning author of The Land of Green Plums presents an evocative portrait of life in a post-World War II Soviet Union labor camp that traces the experiences of 17-year-old Leo Auberg, who throughout five torturous years succumbs to a hallucinatory existence where hunger and everyday objects take on anthropomorphic qualities. Simultaneous.

A Novel

The Hunger Angel

Rafik Schami

Weaving together a variety of tales, the storytellers here live in present-day Syria and include a hairdresser, a geography teacher, an emigrant recently returned from America, and a cafe owner. Their stories are about princesses, demons, mystical happenings, Middle Eastern politics, and the subtleties of striking a bargain in a New York department store.

Damascus Nights

Michael Hulse

In an intense novel set against the backdrop of Ceausescu's totalitarian regime, a young Romanian factory worker--so desperate to escape the betrayal and hardships of her life that she sews notes offering marriage into the linings of suits bound for Italy--is summoned for interrogation by members of the regime. 12,500 first printing.

The Appointment

Hanna Krall

After the deportation of her husband to Auschwitzm Izolda Ragenberg, alias Maria Pawlicka, has only one aim: to free her husband. Her race to beat fate might appear absurd to others, but not to her. In times of war and destruction she learns to trust herself.

Chasing the King of Hearts

Hunger Angel

Sigrid Laube

Even though they are not invited, Cauliflower and Carrot decide to attend the Flower Ball.

The Flower Ball

'I know you'll return'. These are his grandmother's last words to him. Leo has them in his head as he boards the truck at 3am on a freezing mid-January morning in 1945. They keep him company during the long journey to Russia. They keep him alive - through hunger, pain, and despair - during his time in the brutal Soviet labour camps. And, eventually, they bring him back home.

January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years however he experienced daily hunger and cold, extreme fatigue and death.

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