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A softcover copy in fine condition. No creasing to the spine. Pages and boards are clean and unmarked throughout. Die Vermessung der Welt von Daniel Kehlmann. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 2008. In deutscher Sprache. A fictionalised double portrait of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, tracing their parallel obsessions with measuring and understanding the world. One of the most successful German novels. Winner of the Kleist Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.

A softcover copy in very good condition. No creasing to the spine or edges. A light mark to the front board. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Wir sind doch Schwestern von Anne Gesthuysen. Piper Verlag, München Zürich, 2014. Ungekürzte Taschenbuchausgabe (unabridged paperback edition). In deutscher Sprache. A German-language novel of three elderly sisters, memory, and the complex bonds of a shared lifetime. Gesthuysen's debut novel, it reached number one on the Spiegel bestseller list upon publication in 2012. Gesthuysen is a German journalist.

This is one of the most studied and widely read works of 20th-century German literature: Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Der Tod in Venedig. My copy is brand new, unread, with no creasing to the spine or covers. Fischer Taschenbuch, December 2021. Text based on the 1913 S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin edition, newly reviewed; unabridged edition, first published by Fischer Taschenbuch in Frankfurt am Main, July 1992. Copyright Katia Mann, 1967. Printed in Germany on FSC-certified paper. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 and is counted among the most significant German-language writers of the twentieth century, also the author of Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus. Set in Venice during a cholera outbreak in the summer of 1911, Der Tod in Venedig follows the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach as a holiday taken to escape creative exhaustion becomes the site of an absorbing personal crisis. The novella draws extensively on classical mythology and the philosophy of Nietzsche, and has been the subject of extensive critical and scholarly study for over a century.

This beautiful German softcover holds a genuinely remarkable literary story: it is, in fact, Heinrich Böll's first novel, written in 1949-1951 but left unpublished in his lifetime, only emerging from his literary estate in 1992, on what would have been his 75th birthday. My copy is in very good condition, with light creasing to the front cover and pages that remain crisp and entirely unmarked throughout. From my personal library. 5. Auflage (5th printing), 1997. Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln. Text copyright 1992, 1994 by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Edited from Böll's literary estate by Annemarie, René, Vincent, and Viktor Böll together with Heinrich Vormweg; prepared for publication by Werner Bellmann and Beate Schnepp, with an afterword by Bellmann. Cover photograph courtesy of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden. Heinrich Böll, born in Köln, received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972. Der Engel schwieg was written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and is set, though never named outright, in the bombed-out ruins of Böll's native Köln.

This beautiful softcover edition is in fine condition. The pages are tight and unmarked, presenting as fresh and unread, and the book is square and unmarked. Alone in Berlin (also published as Every Man Dies Alone) is a 1947 novel by Hans Fallada, based on the true story of a working-class Berlin couple who waged a quiet campaign of resistance against the Nazi regime. Fallada completed the novel in just three weeks, shortly before his death in February 1947. It remains one of the most celebrated works of historical fiction about the Second World War. This copy is available to international customers through AbeBooks.com, as Kathrin’s Books currently ships within Canada only.

This beautiful German hardcover is in new condition. The pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked throughout, presenting as fresh and unread. The boards are unmarked and clean. This copy is available to international customers through AbeBooks.com, as Kathrin’s Books currently ships within Canada only.