New York. Europa Editions. 2025. 208 pages.Quick. Make an immediate armchair reservation for Robert Seethaler’s joyful celebration in The Café with No Name, translat…
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South Pasadena, California. Semiotext(e). 2018. 240 pages. Heike Geissler would like to be “a person who is what she does,” but her writing and translating work pays too little to buy the occasional…
London. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 2016 (©2013). 672 pages.The phrase “bricks and mortar” refers to the real estate in an east German city, Meyer’s Leipzig, which is likewise the setting for his earlier n…
Katy Derbyshire, tr. London. Seagull Books (University of Chicago Press, distr.). 2014. ISBN 9780857421869Dedicated to her husband on their anniversary, Christa Wolf’s final story tenderly relays the…
