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Morenga

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By: Uwe Timm

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Morenga

Novel

By: Uwe Timm

A daring and brilliant military tactician, Morenga was fluent in several languages and by all reports a man of compassion, intelligence, and integrity, as he led his people towards freedom.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811216268

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9780811216265

Headhunter

By: Uwe Timm

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The first thing to be said about Uwe Timm's novel Headhunter, as every one of the many outstanding reviews on its publication in Germany noted, is that it is a thoroughly engrossing book - gripping and entertaining from beginning to end (FAZ). The second thing is that Timm, with a wonderfully light and precise touch, has created a multi-layered, multi-faceted book that addresses the times we live in and, most particularly, the role of money and the financial cannibalism of recent years. The narrator Peter Walter is a charmer, a master storyteller who has used that skill to siphon off millions from clients hoping to strike it rich on the commodities market. Escaping to Spain on the day his trial verdict is to come down, he intends to devote himself to his hobby, study of Easter Island. But a detective is on the trail of the missing millions, and Walter's uncle, an established author, is planning to use Walter's life story in a novel. Walter sets out to write his own intriguing autobiography - from his childhood in Hamburg's red-light district to his success in the world of high finance.

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418

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New Directions Publishing

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0811217892

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9780811217897

In My Brother's Shadow

By: Uwe Timm

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In My Brother's Shadow

By: Uwe Timm

This moving memoir explores a brother's death fighting for the SS, and one ordinary family's relationship with Nazi Rule.

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148

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0747573913

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9780747573913

The Snake Tree

By: Uwe Timm

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The Snake Tree

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After running over an Acaray snake in South America, Wagner's luck changes and he becomes engulfed in a web of mayhem.

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308

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New Directions Publishing

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0811211010

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9780811211017

The Invention of Curried Sausage

By: Uwe Timm

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The Invention of Curried Sausage

By: Uwe Timm

Here is what German author/narrator Uwe Timm uncovers about a popular German sidewalk food, curried sausage. Convinced the delicacy did not originate in Berlin, Timm tracks down its creator, one Lena Brucker, now living in a retirement home. Thus the tale of how curried sausage came to be is the romantic story of Lena Brucker's life.

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234

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New Directions Publishing

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0811213684

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9780811213684

Midsummer Night

By: Uwe Timm

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Midsummer Night

By: Uwe Timm

An amusing and cautionary tale of one summer solstice night in Berlin.

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300

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New Directions Publishing

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0811213722

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9780811213721

Headhunter

By: Uwe Timm

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Headhunter

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0811217892

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9780811217897

The Snake Tree

By: Uwe Timm

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The Snake Tree

By: Uwe Timm

Wagner, a German engineer, takes in hand the job of rescuing a floundering construction project in the South American rain forest. But before he reaches the site, his car runs over an emerald green snake--marking him, according to local beliefs, for death.

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292

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New Directions Publishing

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0811211215

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9780811211215

Midsummer Night

By: Peter Tegel,Uwe Timm

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Midsummer Night

By: Peter Tegel,Uwe Timm

An amusing and cautionary tale of one summer solstice night in Berlin.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811214206

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9780811214209

Morenga

Novel

By: Uwe Timm

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Morenga

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By: Uwe Timm

A daring and brilliant military tactician, Morenga was fluent in several languages and by all reports a man of compassion, intelligence, and integrity, as he led his people towards freedom.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811216268

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Anniversaries

From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl

By: Uwe Johnson

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Anniversaries

From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl

By: Uwe Johnson

A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time. As a novel, Uwe Johnson's masterpiece, Anniversaries, is at once daringly simple in conception and wonderfully complex and engaging in effect. Late in 1967, Johnson, already one of the most celebrated German novelists of his generation, set out to write a book that would take the form of an entry for every day of the year that lay ahead. The first section was dated August 20, and Johnson had of course no idea what the year would bring--that was part of the challenge--but he did have his main character--Gesine Cresspahl, a German emigre living on the Upper West Side of New York City and working as a translator for a bank who is the single mother of a ten-year-old daughter, Marie. The book would tell the story of a year in the life of this little family in relation to the unfolding story of the year, as winnowed from the pages of the New York Times, of which Gesine is a devoted if wary reader. These stories would in turn be overlayed by another--Gesine is 34, born just as Hitler was coming to power, and she has decided to tell Marie the story of her grandparents' lives and of her own rural childhood in Nazi Germany. It is important that Marie know where and what she comes from. The days of the year are also anniversaries of years past. The world that was and the world of the 1960s--with the struggle for civil rights leading to riots in American cities and, abroad, the escalating destruction of the Vietnam War--are, in the end, one world. Anniversaries was published in four volumes over the more than ten years that it took Johnson to write it, and as the volumes came out it became clear that this was one the great twentieth-century novels. The book courts comparison to Joyce's Ulysses, the book of a day, and to Proust's In Search of Lost Time, the book of a lifetime, but it stands apart in its dense polyphonic interplay of voices and stories. Anniversaries is many books--the book of a mother and daughter, of a family and its generations, of the country and the city, and of two times and two countries that seem farther apart perhaps than they are. It is a novel of private life, a political novel, and a new kind of historical novel, reckoning not only with past history but with history in the making. Monumental and intimate, sweeping in vision and full of incident, richly detailed and endlessly absorbing, Anniversaries, now for the first time available in English in a brilliant new translation by Damion Searls, is nothing short of a revelation.

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New York Review of Books

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1681372037

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9781681372037

Anniversaries, Volume 2

From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968–August 1968

By: Uwe Johnson

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Anniversaries, Volume 2

From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968–August 1968

By: Uwe Johnson

The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine’s long-dashed hopes that socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her boss at the bank has his own ideas about Czechoslovakia, and Gesine faces the prospect of having to move there for work. Continuing the story of her past from Anniversaries, Volume 1, Gesine describes the Soviet occupation of her hometown, Jerichow, where her father was installed as mayor and ended up in a brutal prison camp. Gesine herself charts a rebellious course through school, ever more bitterly conscious of the moral ugliness of life behind the Iron Curtain. As the year of the novel comes to its end, past and present converge and the novel circles back to its beginnings: Gesine tells Marie about her father, Jakob, dead before she was born, about leaving East Germany, and, as history threatens to take them away from New York, about the beginning of their life together in the city that they have both come to love.

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801

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New York Review of Books

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1681375583

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9781681375588

The U.s. Congress And The German Bundestag

Comparisons Of Democratic Processes

By: Uwe Thaysen,Robert Gerald Livingston,Martin J Hillenbrand,Nelson W Polsby

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The U.s. Congress And The German Bundestag

Comparisons Of Democratic Processes

By: Uwe Thaysen,Robert Gerald Livingston,Martin J Hillenbrand,Nelson W Polsby

This book examines the lawmaking bodies of the United states and the Germany and their constitutional duties and limitations. It is a first ever joint US-German parliamentary study that compares and contrasts two of the democratic West's most powerful legislatures.

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Routledge

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1000306569

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9781000306569

The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978

By: Bob Kaufman

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The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978

By: Bob Kaufman

Mr. Kaufman has a genuine lyric talent, and his poetry is sensuous, exciting, and charged with vitality." —Publishers Weekly The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978 is San Francisco poet Bob Kaufman’s third collection and his first to be published since the late 1960s. One of the original Beat poets (the coinage "beatnik" is his), Kaufman’s work has always been essentially improvisational, often done to jazz accompaniment. And he became something of a legendary figure at the poetry readings in the early days of the San Francisco renaissance of the 1950s. With his extemporaneous technique, akin in many ways to Surrealist automatic writing, he has produced a body of work ranging from a visionary lyricism infused with satirical, almost Dadaistic elements to a prophetic poetry of political and social protest. Born in New Orleans of mixed Black and Jewish parentage, Kaufman was one of fourteen children. During twenty years in the Merchant Marine, he cultivated an intense taste for literature on his long sea voyages. Settling in California, in the ’50s, he became active in the burgeoning West Coast literary scene. Disappointment, drugs, and imprisonment led him to take a ten-year vow of complete silence that lasted until 1973. The present volume includes previously uncollected poems written prior to his pledge and newer work composed in the years 1973-1978, before the poet once again lapsed into silence.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811213633

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9780811213639

Book's by Uwe Timm

Morenga

Morenga

Headhunter

Headhunter

In My Brother's Shadow

In My Brother's Shadow

The Snake Tree

The Snake Tree

The Invention of Curried Sausage

The Invention of Curried Sausage

Midsummer Night

Midsummer Night

Headhunter

Headhunter

The Snake Tree

The Snake Tree

Midsummer Night

Midsummer Night

Morenga

Morenga

Anniversaries

Anniversaries

Anniversaries, Volume 2

Anniversaries, Volume 2

The U.s. Congress And The German Bundestag

The U.s. Congress And The German Bundestag

The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978

The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978

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