Ambition is to blame for everything. Only this - and Berthold knew this very well - was a bad, unhealthy ambition, which every time prompted him to take on t...

The fire itself came to me and chose me. He waited, lay in wait at the border of my dreams, my thoughts, and became a reality. Matter - and every schoolchild...

First of all, this dog. She was hanging out there. Always stuck there. A huge shepherd dog - light hair that hung almost in strands, erect ears and elongated...

After school, he tried many professions, but none suited him one hundred percent. For some time I did minor work in one of the office anthills, but who would...

Marcus Mering was thirty-four, or even thirty-five, he himself didn’t know exactly. He worked in an institution: he looked through forms filled out by those ...

Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?But what ...

Two newest novels by one of the brightest authors of the German-speaking “new wave”, Daniel Kehlmann, author of the famous book “The Time of Mahler,” are the...