Wolfgang Koeppen

• May-1991
• / General Fiction
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Here is an English translation of a post-war German classic. The events of the novel take place during the course of a single day in an unnamed city in occupied Germany where the endless drone of allied planes overhead increases the already heightene...

• Jun-2001
• / General Fiction
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A prophetic novel that ranks with The Tin Drum and W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants as one of the essential works of contemporary European fiction. Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome, in the words of translator Michael Hofmann, "is a comprehensive and bril...

• Jun-2001
• / General Fiction
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"A recovered masterpiece. . . . Remarkable as a sidelong, searing appraisal of the legacy of the Nazi years."? Publishers Weekly, starred review A masterpiece by a writer long neglected in America, The Hothouse created a literary stir when it appeare...

• Nov-2014
• / Literary
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Wolfgang Koeppen is the most important German novelist of the past seventy years: a radical, not to say terrifying, stylist; a caustic, jet-black comedian; a bitter prophet. His late, autobiographical work--the short, intense autofiction, Youth, t...