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The German List

Jirgl Reinhard

ISBN: HB: 9780857427793, Seagull Books, July 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Reinhard Jirgl's strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that he is not only unorthodox in his approach to language, but also difficult to pin down in terms of any genre. Weaving together elements of crime story, C...

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The German List

Unfinished

Jirgl Reinhard

ISBN: HB: 9780857427359, Seagull Books, April 2020
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Komotau, the Czech Republic, late summer, 1945. Four women – seventy-year-old Johanna, her two daughters Hanna and Maria, and Hanna's daughter Anna – are ordered by the new Czech authorities to leave their homes and assemble with other Germans at the...

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Forgetting

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781784108908, Carcanet, January 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

This personal book explores both the public and the private dimensions of forgetting and its scary Siamese twin, remembering. Forgetting takes in our modern fear of Alzheimer's and dementia; the abuse to which such slogans as "Remember Auschwitz!" c...

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Cemetery in Barnes

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781784105464, Carcanet, March 2018
112 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

The 18th novel from the distinguished novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright. A short, intense mystery novel that begins in gentle elegy and ends in diabolism and – murder.

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Walnut Mansion

Jergovic Miljenko, Dickey Stephen M., Pavetic-Dickey Janja

ISBN: PB: 9780300226980, Yale University Press, September 2017
456 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of th...

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Saturnin

Jirotka Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024632889, ISBN: HB: 9788024606835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2016
263 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! On its initial publication in Czech in 1942, Saturnin was a best seller, its gentle satire offering an unexpected – if temporary – reprieve from the grim reality of the German occupation....

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Midway on Our Life's Journey

Jedlicka Josef

ISBN: HB: 9788024631271, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2016
150 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, "Midway on Our Life's Journey" flew in the face of the reigning aesth...

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The Swiss List

Obscurity

Jaccottet Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780857423078, Seagull Books, October 2015
160 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

After several years abroad, a young man returns to his hometown to seek the man he calls master. This master, a brilliant philosopher, had made the young man into a disciple before sending him out into the world to put his teachings into practice. Re...

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Hotel Andromeda

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781847772633, Carcanet, May 2014
144 pp., 21.6x13.2 cm

"Sometimes I'm tempted to throw away all I've written so far and start again, write quite a different kind of book, in the first person perhaps. Or write it in the third person but like a novel, with more freedom to go where a critical study could no...

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Infinity The Story of a Moment

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781847771667, Carcanet, May 2012
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"The piano is not an instrument for young ladies Massimo, he said, it is an instrument for gorillas. Only a gorilla has the strength to attack the piano as it should be attacked, only a gorilla has the uninhibited energy to challenge the piano as it...

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