Er lebte und schrieb am Rande der Gesellschaft, schockierte seine Boheme-Freunde in Berlin mit de...

'There is nothing which The METAMORPHOSIS could be surpassed by.'-Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize-winn...

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue Richard has spent ...

A haunting novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: an exquisitely crafted...

A story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman. By tracing the five...

A young Vietnamese woman is invited to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to speak at an International ...

A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to...

Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeFrom one of the most daring voices in Europea...

Franz Kafka's classic 1915 novella remains one of the most widely read works of fiction in the wo...

Patrik, who sometimes calls himself 'the patient,' is a literary researcher living in present-day...

The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.Pa...

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generatio...

Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, b...

Sie galten und gelten als die rätselhaftesten Manuskripte in der deutschsprachigen Literatur dies...

A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictur...

The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discove...

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'The English translation of Szondi's seminal work constitutes an important landmark for Celan aff...

Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been describ...

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as 'Yoko Ta...

A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser is a project initiated by the gallerist Donald Yo...

Written in spare, highly concentrated language, 'a sustained feat of verbal economy' (Die Zeit), ...

A pseudo-biographical 'stroll' through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The ...

A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual...

Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, 'one of...

A child is found standing on the street with an empty bucket in her hand and no memory of her nam...

Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by t...

A precocious Vietnamese high school student - known as the pupil with 'the iron blouse'-in Ho Chi...

Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most import...

A story of three polar bears: a memoirist who flees the Soviet Union; a dancer in an East Berlin ...

The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth centur...

In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young ...

The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five 'books,...

Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ('dazzling...

An NYRB Classics OriginalIt is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening...

The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth centur...

Shortlisted for the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeBy the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a...

Die Kultur des Gehens entwickelt sich parallel zur mechanisierten Fortbewegung in Eisenbahn und A...

The highly anticipated, exquisite new novel from the award-winning, critically acclaimed Yoko Taw...