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 ›
Hans Fallada’s 1947 anti-Nazi classic Every Man Dies Alone
Reading this masterful novel was both painful and exhausting. Every Man Dies Alone is the story of what it was like to live in Berlin in the early 1940s. Written by someone who lived through it, the novel shows how everyone suffered under the political system of Nazi rule.
Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek
Title: TherapyAuthor: Sebastian FitzekTranslator: Sally-Ann SpencerPublisher: St. Martin’s, 2009Originally published in Germany as Die Therapie by Knaur, 2006 Wow. Talk about a page turner! I came across this book by way of Euro Crime, an information packed blog devoted to… Read More ›