German Drama

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...

Auf dieser Expedition im Frühjahr 1996 ereignete sich die schlimmste Katastrophe, die je auf dem "Dach der Welt" geschah...

Mit Götz von Berlichingen (1773) schuf Johann Wolfgang von Goethe eines der wichtigsten Werke des Sturm und Drang. Die Figur des rebellischen Ritters mit der eisernen Hand verkörpert den Widerstand gegen Willkür, Machtmissbrauch und gesellschaftliche Zwänge. Das Drama basiert auf der historischen Figur Götz von Berlichingen (1480–1562) und ist ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer für persönliche Freiheit und aufrechtes Handeln – voller Pathos, Konflikte und politischer Spannung.

"Haunting and atmospheric." —Nalini Singh, New York Times bestselling author, for The Farmhouse The past isn't just haunting her—it's hunting her. Addison Lowe knew her mother-in-law despised her, but inheriting Barb's massive estate after her death feels less like closure and more like a...

The Man with No Face is coming. CSI Darby McCormick find an emaciated, terrified woman hiding in the shadows of a crime scene. A DNA search reveals the woman was abducted five years ago and, somehow, she’s escaped the dungeon in which she was caged. With a teenage girl also missing, Darby...

Discover the award-winning debut novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists, a “majestic collision of sci-fi thriller and love story” (Bustle) about a young woman struggling with questions of love, trust, and ethics as the line between dreams and reality...

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her...

Widerwillig empfängt der bekannte Schriftsteller Pawel Wassiljewitsch die Muraschkina, eine emporstrebende, rotgesichtige Kollegin. Bevor die fleischige Dame ihren Fünfakter der Zensur vorlegt, will sie ihn Pawel Wassiljewitsch vorlesen. Dieser schätzt aber nur die eigenen Werke, wagt aber auch nicht, abzulehnen. Er gibt der Besucherin eine halbe Stunde Zeit.

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...

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...

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.

From the award-winning author of The Bellwether Revivals comes a "gorgeous and harrowing work" (Emily St. John Mandel) set on a mysterious island, where artists strive to recover their lost gifts--and where nothing is quite as it seems. Situated on a Turkish island, Portmantle might be the...

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...

“[A] striking debut. . . funny, heartbreaking, and real.”––SAM LANSKY, author of Broken People Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly...

Im Zentrum stehen die Konflikte und Träume einer Gruppe von Künstlern und Intellektuellen auf einem russischen Landgut. Liebe, Ehrgeiz und Enttäuschung durchziehen das Stück, das durch seine fein gezeichneten Charaktere und melancholische Atmosphäre besticht. Tschechow verbindet in diesem Werk Tragik und subtile Komik, wodurch Die Möwe zu einem zeitlosen Klassiker der Bühnenliteratur wurde.

A collection of self-contained chapters exploring human imperfections, life, and death through humor and raw introspection, perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven, literary fiction. The characters in Dominic Hoffman's tales of Late Rehearsals are familiar. Their choices are recognizable...

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...

In A Quitter’s Paradise, the darkly humorous debut by bold, new voice Elysha Chang, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own. Eleanor is doing just fine. Yes, she’s hiding things from...

In this startling candid and poignant memoir, the legendary Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, America's #1 soap opera, chronicles his amazing life, from his birth in World War II Germany to his arrival in America to his rise to humanitarian and daytime superstar for the past...

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. This is the story of how we became. I write those words...