Gert Hofmann

• Apr-1988
• / Literary
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• Oct-1989
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1991
• / Literary
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The narrator and his fiancee have come to a remote Bolivian village to inform an exiled elderly man he is free to return to Germany, but end up following the old man through funeral preparations for his murdered brother and listening to bizarre tales...

• Jun-1996
• / Historical
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It is the early 1930s in Limbach, an industrial village suffering from the depression. Karl Hofmann narrates silent movies at the local cinema. The job pays poorly and is largely unnecessary, as the films have subtitles and the crowds are small, but ...

• May-2002
• / General Fiction
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A beautiful, bittersweet, and very funny novel about growing up, Luck is perhaps Gert Hofmann's finest book, and is translated into English by the author's son, the wonderful translator Michael Hofmann. Luck is the story of a nuclear family: father, ...

• Jul-2007
• / Romance
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Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein -- all praised the writings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), a mathematician, physicist and astronomer by profession, and an aphorist and satirist on the sly. In...

• May-2016
• / General Fiction
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Six blind beggars in 16th century Flanders--a ragged, profane, and irascible crew--find themselves waking to yet another grim day in the dark. Today, however, something is different. Today these men have an appointment with a painter: they have been ...

• Oct-2023
• / Historical
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A powerful novel about prejudice, violence, and complicity in Nazi Germany, this spare and evocative work interrogates shows how a group of people can slip towards extremism and barbarity in the blink of an eye.The time is the 1930s. Our philosophe...