German Drama

Fernando Aramburu's internationally acclaimed novel evokes an unresolved history of violence, giving a fictional account of lives shattered by Basque terrorism even as it rekindles debate about truth and reconciliation. Lifetime friends become bitter enemies when the father of one family is...

A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a...

Zum Ende ihrer Amtszeit hat Angela Merkel ihre wohl größte Herausforderung zu bestehen. Doch die Kanzlerin, die in Notsituationen oft zur Hochform aufgelaufen ist, gerät in dieser Krise an die Grenzen ihrer Autorität. Die Pandemie, so Robin Alexander, ist dabei nur ein weiteres, spektakuläres Kapitel in einem noch größeren Drama: dem Ende einer ganzen Ära. In seinem neuen Hörbuch erzählt der Bestsellerautor die Geschichte hinter den Kulissen: vom harten, langen Kampf in den inneren Machtzirkeln der Republik und vom Showdown um Merkels Nachfolge, der die Union fast zerreißt.

Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami. First published in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan, it was published one month later as a book. Hear the Wind Sing is the first book in the "Trilogy of the Rat," a series of...

Mano Majra is a place, Khushwant Singh tells us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the 'ghost train' arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of...

For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level In medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because...

Der Dichter Torquato Tasso ist in die Prinzessin von Este verliebt. Doch wie das so ist in der Welt des Adels: Ränkespiele und Kabale verhindern sein Glück. Das Künstlerdrama Goethes, das in der klassischen aristotelischen Tradition der Einheit von Ort, Zeit und Handlung geschaffen wurde, ist ein dauernder Gast auf den Brettern, die die Welt bedeuten.

Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that...

The brilliant and darkly hilarious debut novel about how the past can come back to haunt you (literally) by the New York Times bestselling author of Everyone Here Is Lying, Shari Lapena. Harold Walker, desperately average, is in the throes of a mid-life depression. His wife Audrey clings to an...

Der Schmied Friedeborn klagt den Grafen vom Strahl an, seine Tochter Katharine mit magischen Mitteln verführt zu haben. Tatsächlich war sie ihm freiwillig gefolgt. Der Graf denkt allerdings, Kunigunde von Thurneck, die er befreit hat, sei seine vorbestimmte Gattin, denn er hält sie für die Tochter des Kaisers. Zahlreiche Verwirrungen und Abenteuer später stellt sich heraus, dass tatsächlich Käthchen die uneheliche Tochter des Kaisers ist. Das Märchendrama, wie es genannt wird, ist noch heute ein permanenter Gast auf den Spielplänen der Bühnen.

Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to In a Glass House explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one’s longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after his father’s death. Uneasy with their new proximity in each...

For fans of Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Great Disasters is a stirring debut novel about six young men coming of age, and the enduring friendships that make us who we are—even as our paths diverge.

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