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Briefwechsel 1930–1940

Gretel Adorno, Walter Benjamin

Gretel Adorno / Walter Benjamin: Correspondence 1930 - 1940

The correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin began in 1930, but only after Benjamin’s emigration to France did it reach its full intensity, standing not only as a testament to the intellectual Berlin of the twenties, but also as a document of a great friendship that existed independently of the relationship between Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno.

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English world rights (Polity Press), Spanish world rights (Eterna cadencia), France (Gallimard), Japan (Misuzu Shobo)

Geheimnis

Juri Andruchowytsch

Secret

Rarely do the private and the political intertwine so closely as in this ironic portrait of an author who doesn't trust himself an inch.

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Das letzte Territorium

Juri Andruchowytsch

The Last Territory

On our literary map that is hardly even an outline of the Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe. Andruchowytsch, the internationally best known Ukraine author takes the limited knowledge of his audience in West Europe and the United States seriously and in a series of brilliant essays familiarizes them more closely with a forgotten region in Central Europe.

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Spanish world rights (Quaderns Crema/El Acantilado), Hungary (Racio)

Moscoviada

Juri Andruchowytsch

Moscoviada

Moscoviada, Andruchowytsch’s most successful book, translated into many languages, was written in Spring 1992 on the banks of Lake Starnberg outside Munich – and is surprisingly topical today.

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USA (Spuyten Duyvil), Spanish world rights (Quaderns Crema), Russia (New Literary Review), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Besa Editrice), Poland (Czarne), Czech Republic (FRA), Slovak Republic (Kalligram), Hungary (Gondolat), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (Allfa), Macedonia (Makedonska Rech), Belarus (ARCHE), Georgia (Bakur Sulakauri)

Perversion

Juri Andruchowytsch

Perversion

The godchild of Rabelais and Bakhtin, Bulgakov and Esterházy, it is a whirligig of forms, styles, and apocryphal traditions – an adventure for readers who view life not as something to lament and despair over, but as something worth celebrating joyfully with a good book.

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USA (Northwestern UP), Spain (Quaderns Crema/El Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Russia (NLO), Finland (Loki Kirjat), Poland (Czarne), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Clio)

Zwölf Ringe

Juri Andruchowytsch

Twelve rings

In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through the Ukraine. The birth pangs of this new state, the incongruous mixture of brutally tasteless commercialization, backward Hutsul folklore, re-Sovietization and Habsburg nostalgia fascinates him.

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Mein Europa

Juri Andruchowytsch, Andrzej Stasiuk

My Europe

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Ermordung des Glücks

Friedrich Ani

Killing Happiness - Novel

Happiness is extinguished completely when 11-year-old Lennard Grabbe doesn’t come home one night during the cold November days in Munich. 34 days later, he is found the victim of a murderer. Former Detective Chief Superintendent Jakob Franck, protagonist of Ani’s previous novel Day Without a Name, delivers the most horrible news of all to the parents – and so, happiness disappears from their house. And so does the happiness of other people connected to Lennard.

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Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Hörbuch Hamburg), German Radio Drama (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)

Nackter Mann, der brennt

Friedrich Ani

Naked Man Burning

At the age of fourteen, a boy flees from the southern German village of Heiligsheim. Forty years later, he returns under the name of Ludwig »Luggi« Dragomir. The tough times he has had to live through since leaving his native village are not enough to prevent the constant reliving of something even more sinister: the abuse perpetrated on him and his childhood friends by some of the most influential people of Heiligsheim.

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Der namenlose Tag

Friedrich Ani

Day Without a Name

Detective Chief Superintendent Jakob Franck has been retired for two months and feels that he can now start to lead a life in which he leaves behind the dead - until a case from his past catches up with him.

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Der Narr und seine Maschine

Friedrich Ani

The Fool and His Machine

Tabor Süden started out as a policeman before moving into private detective work, becoming an experienced specialist in missing persons cases. What he really wanted was to walk away forever from investigative work after the last case in which one of his colleagues lost his life.

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Nanettes Gedächtnis

Friedmar Apel

Nanette's Memory

The bookseller Nanette is a memory artist, who has lost her synesthetic abilities following a mysterious incident. Consequently she is of more interest to a well-known Russian brain researcher, who asks her to write down her story.

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Das Buch Goldmann

Ingeborg Bachmann

The Book Goldmann

The Book Goldmann is the name Ingeborg Bachmann gave to her great narrative project, which she cherished until the end. This edition renders the previously only fragmentarily available work recognizable as a project of redemptive narration. The Book Goldmann deals with the various aspects of indiscretion, including misunderstood indiscretion that leaves the other alone in his distress. Half a century after Hofmannsthal, Bachmann discovers a social medium in the somewhat indiscrete Viennese conversation, which could have prevented the worst: Fanny Goldmann’s death.

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Kriegstagebuch

Ingeborg Bachmann

War Diary

The present volume for the first time compiles the war diary Ingeborg Bachmann kept from late summer 1944 to June 1945, as well as the surviving letters from Jack Hamesh – a unique document of dialogue between the children of the victims and the perpetrators.

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Malina

Ingeborg Bachmann

Malina

The narrator of Ingeborg Bachmann's stunning novel, Malina, tells the story of the triangle that forms between herself, the shadowy Malina, and Ivan, the man with whom she is involved.

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UK & Commonwealth (Penguin), Spanish world rights (Akal), Catalan rights (Edicions 62 – published, rights reverted), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estaçao Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Ediçoes 70), France (Seuil), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Van Gennep), Denmark (Vandkunsten), Sweden (Ellerströms), Norway (Bokvennen – published, rights reverted), Finnland (Weilin & Göös – published, rights reverted), Korea (Minumsa), Japan (Shobunsha), Poland (A5, Polish audio book: Mala Litera), Czech Republic (Mlada fronta – published, rights reverted), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel – published, rights reverted), Hungary (Jelenkor), Bulgaria (Na Otetschestwenia Front – published, rights reverted), Romania (Humanitas – published, rights reverted), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers Union – published – rights reverted), Slovenia (Pomuska Zalozba – published, rights reverted), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), Greece (Agrostis – published, rights reverted), Macedonia (Tri), Albania (Saras), Ukraine (Klasyka), Georgia (Karchkhadze Publishing), Israel (Hakibutz Hameuchad / Sifriat Poalim)

Die Radiofamilie

Ingeborg Bachmann

The Radio Familiy

In autumn of the year 1952, a »chain-smoking mermaid with angel’s hair who more whispered than spoke« entered the radio play department of the American occupied forces Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcasting station in Vienna.

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Herzzeit

Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan

Herzzeit

»Books of this stature appear only every few decades.« Deutschlandradio

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Als nur die Tiere lebten

Zsófia Bán

When There Were Only Animals

Emigration, displacement, the brutal rupture that separates a life into a before and an after – these experiences form the centre of gravity around which the fifteen stories that make up this volume revolve.

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Abendschule

Zsófia Bán

Night School

»We learn so much over the course of our lives, and then, at the decisive moment, at the grand finale, there is so little of it we can actually use.«

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Der Jahrhundertjongleur Francis Brunn

Reinhold Batberger

Francis Brunn

He tossed a ball into the air, and earned millions. For more than fifty years, millions watched him do his turn, which lasted seven minutes. That was the life of Francis Brunn, Juggler (1922–2004).

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