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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

And how well it all started. This morning, quite unexpectedly, large white flakes fell from the sky. Very slow and silent. From year to year it is the same: ...

“Mahler's Time” is a novel by one of the most brilliant German-speaking writers of our time, the author of the famous “Berholm's Magic”. The main character o...

“Mahler's Time” is a novel by one of the most brilliant German-speaking writers of our time, the author of the famous “The Magic of Berholm”. The main charac...

The novel tells about the incredible adventures of the good soldier Beni, a wit and joker, who ended up in Finland at the beginning of the twentieth century....