Rilke: Poems

Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by J.B. Leishman

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 22, 1996
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-679-45098-6 (0-679-45098-X)

This Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover edition contains poems from The Book of Images; New Poems; Requiem for a Friend; Poems, 1906-1926; French Poems; The Life of Mary; Sonnets to Orpheus; The Duino Elegies; Letters to a Young Poet; and an index of first lines. Read more >

Flights of Love
Stories
Written by Bernhard Schlink

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72555-5 (0-375-72555-5)

Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters—men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception—are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight.

A young boy’s fascination with an eerily... Read more >

The Gordian Knot

Written by Bernhard Schlink

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72556-2 (0-375-72556-3)

Georg Polger ekes out a lonely living as a freelance translator in the south of France, until he is approached by a certain Mr. Bulnakov, who has a intriguing proposition: Georg is to take over a local translation agency and finish a project left by the previous owner, who died in... Read more >

Homecoming

Written by Bernhard Schlink

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72557-9 (0-375-72557-1)

The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit.

A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter... Read more >

The Reader
A novel
Written by Bernhard Schlink

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 7, 1999
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70797-1 (0-375-70797-2)

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.

When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna... Read more >

Self's Murder

Written by Bernhard Schlink

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70909-8 (0-375-70909-6)

Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.

Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop doing what he does best—investigating. And his most recent case is one of the most intriguing of his career. Herr Welker... Read more >

Self's Punishment

Written by Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70907-4 (0-375-70907-X)

As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil.

Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self searches for a prankish hacker who’s invaded the... Read more >

Summer Lies
Stories
Written by Bernhard Schlink
Translated by Carol Janeway

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94832-8 (0-307-94832-3)

From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make... Read more >

Summer Lies
Stories
Written by Bernhard Schlink
Translated by Carol Janeway

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-90726-4 (0-307-90726-0)

From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make... Read more >

The Weekend

Written by Bernhard Schlink

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-45631-1 (0-307-45631-5)

Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart.

They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they’ve taken since their youth. But this isn’t just any reunion, and their conversations about the old days aren’t your typical reminiscences... Read more >

Mrs. Sartoris

Written by Elke Schmitter

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72614-9 (0-375-72614-4)

An international sensation, Elke Schmitter’s explosive debut novel presents a modern-day twist.

Margarethe can remember very clearly the last time she was happy: she was eighteen, prized for her beauty, and swept off her feet by her wealthy, dashing boyfriend. Then he left her. For the last twenty years she has lived... Read more >

33 Moments of Happiness
St. Petersburg Stories
Written by Ingo Schulze

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 5, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70004-0 (0-375-70004-8)

An intriguing, fabulously bizarre debut collection of short stories by prize-winning German writer Ingo Schulze, author of Simple Stories.

These thirty-three macabre, often comical short pieces revolve around moments of odd bliss—moments seized by characters who have found ways to conquer the bleakness of everyday life in the chaotic world of post-communist... Read more >

Adam and Evelyn

Written by Ingo Schulze
Translated by John E. Woods

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27281-2 (0-307-27281-8)

From one of Germany’s finest writers comes a wonderfully light and humorous novel set during the tumultuous events of 1989. A wobbling Hungary has just opened its borders to Austria enabling a flood of refugees to escape, the Berlin Wall is on the cusp of falling, and, yet, seemingly sheltered from... Read more >

New Lives

Written by Ingo Schulze

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27798-5 (0-307-27798-4)

In his long-awaited new novel, renowned German author Ingo Schulze provides a rich and nuanced panorama of a world in transition.

East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Türmer–man of the theater, aspiring novelist–has turned his back on the art world and joined a startup newspaper. Before long, the former aesthete and rebel becomes... Read more >

One More Story
Thirteen Stories in the Time-Honored Mode
Written by Ingo Schulze
Translated by John E. Woods

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27104-4 (0-307-27104-8)

“A literary event” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): thirteen new stories from one of Germany’s finest writers.

New Year’s Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert meets Julia, his lost love. Since their separation in the fall of 1989, he’s drifted through life like an exile, remaining... Read more >

Simple Stories

Written by Ingo Schulze

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70512-0 (0-375-70512-0)

Prize-winning German writer Ingo Schulze's first novel, Simple Stories, is a marvel of storytelling and craft. Set in the East German town of Altenburg after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it deftly leaps among an array of confused characters caught in the crossroads of their country’s history: a lovelorn waitress... Read more >

After Nature

Written by W.G. Sebald

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75658-0 (0-375-75658-2)

After Nature, W. G. Sebald’s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind’s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, “an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than... Read more >

The Emergence of Memory
Conversations with W. G. Sebald
Written by W.G. Sebald
Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-915-6 (1-58322-915-9)

When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound... Read more >

Transit

Written by Anna Seghers
Afterword by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
Introduction by Peter Conrad

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-625-2 (1-59017-625-1)

Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.

Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German... Read more >

Seven Years

Written by Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-394-1 (1-59051-394-0)

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... Read more >

The Rider on the White Horse

Written by Theodor Storm
Translated by James Wright
Foreword by James Wright

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-301-5 (1-59017-301-5)

“The Rider on the White Horse” begins as a ghost story. A traveler finds himself caught in dangerously rough weather. On an island just offshore he glimpses the specter of a rider on a white horse rising and plunging in the wind and rain. Taking shelter at a local inn, the... Read more >

Perfume
The Story of a Murderer
Written by Patrick Suskind

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72584-5 (0-375-72584-9)

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder.

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a... Read more >

Youth Without God

Written by Odon Von Horvath
Translated by R. Wills Thomas
Introduction by Liesl Schillinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-61219-119-5 (1-61219-119-3)

Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years.

This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century’s great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the... Read more >

The Duel

Written by Heinrich von Kleist
Translated by Annie Janusch

Format: Trade Paperback, 72 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 978-1-935554-53-0 (1-935554-53-0)

A new translation of a key work by one of European literature’s most important early writers.

One of the few novellas written by the master German playwright, The Duel was considered by Thomas Mann and others to be one of the great works of German literature. The story of a virtuous woman... Read more >

An Ermine in Czernopol

Written by Gregor von Rezzori
Translated by Philip Boehm
Introduction by Daniel Kehlmann

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: January 10, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-341-1 (1-59017-341-4)

“The city lies somewhere in the godforsaken southeastern part of Europe and is named Czernopol,” Gregor von Rezzori writes in the prelude to this major early novel, the first part of a trilogy based on the author’s childhood that would grow to include some of his finest work: the scintillating memoir... Read more >