When TLC Book Tours asked if I’d be interested in reading Gutenberg’s Apprentice I was in the midst of planning a road trip in Germany. The book arrived a few days before I left on my trip, so I took… Read More ›
Germany fiction
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Why I read it: I’m interested in this time period of German history, but read it mainly because the musical film Cabaret is based on Goodbye to Berlin. The play and movie I Am A Camera is also based on… Read More ›
Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright by Justine Saracen
I didn’t learn in school that “homosexuals” were a group targeted by the Nazis. I distinctly remember first hearing about it in the late 80s from the silence = death campaign created during the early years of the AIDS epidemic…. Read More ›
All That I Am by Anna Funder
This book tired me out. Not that it’s overly long or a slog to get through, but Funder’s telling of the fear, paranoia, and betrayal that infected people during Hitler’s earliest years in power and the reach of that early… Read More ›
Summer Storm by Kristina Dunker
AmazonCrossing Cove Summer Storm (Sommergewitter) by Kristina Dunker Translated from German by Margot Bettauer Dembo Edition I read: AmazonCrossing, 2011 (ISBN:9781611090307) Oringinally published by Deutscher Taschen buch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2004 This book came to me through The… Read More ›
The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
Title: The Hangman’s Daughter (Die Henkerstochter) Author: Oliver Potzsch Translated from German by: Lee Chadeayne Edition I read: AmazonCrossing, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-935597-06-6) Source: bought it Now also available from Mariner Books. I noticed ads for this book on various book… Read More ›
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck
Visitationby Jenny ErpenbeckOriginally published in Germany as Heimsuchung by Eichborn Verlag, 2008 Translated from German by Susan BernofskyEdition I read by New Directions, 2010 Visitation is a short novel, only 192 pages long, but Erpenbeck’s sparse prose (and Bernofsky’s translation)… Read More ›