Books set in Germany (158)


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La musa oscura by Armin Öhri ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Una novela de detectives, situada en 1865 en Berlín, por entonces capital del reino de Prusia. En este caso, aunque comienza con el clásico homicidio, el misterio no gira en torno a quién lo hizo, sino que se enfoca en los inteligentes giros retóricos, que tienen como fin generar suficiente duda razonable para lograr la perfección del crimen. El detective amateur es Julius Bentheim, estudiante de derecho, que mejora sus magros ingresos con su habilidad y talento para dibujar, principalmente escenas del crimen para la policía. Y lo acompañan, su... continue

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Lichtspiel by Daniel Kehlmann DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dreht G. W. Pabst in Frankreich; vor den Gräueln des neuen Deutschlands flieht er nach Hollywood. Aber unter der blendenden Sonne Kaliforniens sieht der weltberühmte Regisseur mit einem Mal aus wie ein Zwerg. Nicht einmal Greta Garbo, die er unsterblich gemacht hat, kann ihm helfen. Und so findet Pabst sich, fast wie ohne eigenes Zutun, in seiner Heimat Österreich wieder, die nun Ostmark heißt. Die barbarische Natur des Regimes spürt die heimgekehrte F... continue

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Look at Him by Anna Starobinet︠s︡ EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
Journalist, scriptwriter, and novelist Anna Starobinets-often called "Russia's Stephen King"-is best known for her work in horror and her writing for children. In this groundbreaking memoir, Starobinets chronicles the devastating loss of her unborn son to a fatal birth defect. After her son's death, Starobinets suffers from nightmares and panic attacks; the memoir describes her struggle to find sympathy, community, and psychological support for herself and her family. A finalist for Russia's 2018 National Bestseller Prize, Look at Him ignited a firestorm in Russia, prompting both high praise a... continue

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Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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‘Madgermanes’ is what the Mozambican workers once contracted out to East Germany are called today. At the end of the 1970s, some 20,000 of them were sent from the People’s Republic of Mozambique to the GDR to labour for their socialist sister country. After the Berlin Wall fell, almost all of them lost their residency status. Decades later, they are still waiting for most of their wages to be paid. Birgit Weyhe depicts their search for belonging and a place to call home, caught between two cultures and two states that no longer exist. Based on extensive interviews, she cre... continue

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Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
"The pain of losing something precious can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amid the city's bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics and seedy cabarets, a chance meeting transforms his life forever. Caught between his desire for freedom and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found."

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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl EN

Rating: 5 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and mov... continue

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Man's Search For Meaning : The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl EN

Rating: 5 (10 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

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Marzahn, Mon Amour : by Katja Oskamp EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR's largest prefabricated housing estate, on the outskirts of Berlin. From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she keenly observes her clients and co-workers, delving into their personal histories. Each story stands alone as a beautifully crafted vignette, told with humour and poignancy; together they form a nuanced and tender portrait of a community.

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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht s most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ( Mother Courage ), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe s religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and ... continue