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Franz Kafka
This fine version, with David Cronenberg’s inspired introduction and the new translator’s beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will…
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Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky (trans.)
The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.
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Yoko Tawada
Tawada’s slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency. -Michael Porter, The New York Times
A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan by the astonishing Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award
Jenny Erpenbeck
A haunting novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: an exquisitely crafted, stealthily chilling story of a house and its inhabitants, and a country and its ghosts.
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Now in paperback, the unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis.
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Jenny Erpenbeck (Y)
‘I haven’t read anything this good - this bracing, unflinching and alive - for a long time’ Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love
A story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman: an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel that kneads Time and History like dough
Susan Bernofsky
The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator
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Robert Walser
A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art
The Assistant by Robert Walser-who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald-is now presented in English for the very first time.
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From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than 1,000 short stories and prose pieces. This collection offers a…
Tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. This novel is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with…
Robert Walser’s preferred alternate version of his classic tale. In a new translation by Susan Bernofsky, The Walk is an elegant consideration of walking and the philosophical musings it engenders.
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers-who happen to be polar bears
Celebrated practitioners speak on the creative, critical, political, and historical aspects of their work.
Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University),Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions)
The Old Child & Other Stories introduces in English one of Germany’s most original and brilliant young authors, Jenny Erpenbeck.
Hermann Hesse
A fresh translation of the Nobel laureate’s acclaimed novel blends elements of psychoanalysis and Asian religions to probe an Indian aristocrat’s efforts to renounce sensual and material pleasures and discover…
Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and everyday reality, this collection of stories blurs divisions between fact and fiction, prose and poetry. Set…
Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
Franz Kafka’s classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Susan Bernofsky’s acclaimed new translation…
Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions)
Winner of the Presigious Hans Fallada Prize and a bestseller in Europe, The End of Days offers a unique view on twentieth-century German history.
Over 50 original full-color artworks address newly translated writings of Robert Walser
Peter Szondi
Peter Szondi’s Celan Studies marks the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century.
A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperback
An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: Erpenbeck will get under your skin (Washington Post Book World)
Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers-who happen to be polar bears.
