The Antwerp Testament is Evelyn Grill’s longest book to date and her most complex. It shows those who were damaged and dislocated by World War II rebuilding their lives on two continents. The male pro
A riot of confession,complaint, and sensual detail, this novel charts the first year alone of a manwho has abandoned his wife, life, family, and homeland, seeking an impossibleideal: freedom.
A composer who has already given up composing—because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres!—the man becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which h
One of the loveliest riddles of Austrian literature is finally available in English translation: Gert Jonke’s 1982 novel, Awakening to the Great Sleep War, is an expedition through a world in constant
Abelard’s Love is an inspired retelling of the story of Abelard and Heloise—the French medieval theologian and his brilliant student—whose love affair led to a scandal that has echoed through the cent
A critical and commercial success in German, Kahn & Engelmann tells the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, thei
Concert was one of the last books published by a Jew in Germany before Hitler came to power. The work is autobiographical, a collection of essays and vignettes that both entertain and engage the reade
With a delightful combination of the ridiculous and the sublime, Jonkeexplores surreal dimensions of space and sound, always anchoring hisflights of fancy in accessible imagery. More than any other a
