I’ve decided to break up my BookExpo book haul into at least two posts. Today I’m sharing the books I acquired that are already published. Next week I’ll share the books being published in July and beyond. Here… Read More ›
Translated from German
DNF from my #TBR2018RBR Challenge
DNF = Did Not Finish The Swarm by Frank Schätzing is the second read off my To Be Read 2018 Roof Beam Reader Challenge (#TBR2018RBR). The first was Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg, which I enjoyed. Schätzing’s 2004 bestseller had been… Read More ›
The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel
I’m always on the look-out for German crime novels translated into English and was thrilled to find The Murder Farm on Edelweiss. “With only a limited number of ways in which violent death can be investigated, crime writers have to… Read More ›
Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus
I keep an eye out for mystery/thrillers translated from German and this book had been on my radar for several months before it was released in January. Then, as luck would have it, I won a copy from Criminal Element…. 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 ›