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West Germany’s inability to mourn was deemed a ‘silent catastrophe’ by the late, great W.G. Sebald. His early critical writings appear in a book of the same name.
Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.
‘If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?’
A novel that invites adoration and controversy in equal measure, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther has endured in the popular imagination.
The book was written in 1932 but not published till 2020
These stories address the needs and assert the agency of women.
A richly wrought tale of love found at the fag end of a republic wins the 2024 International Booker.
In Kairos, a relationship between a young woman and an older married man captures the difficulties and ambivalences of German reunification.
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