Walter Kempowski

Idyllic World

Novel

A little village in the moors in the 1960s. Matthias Jänicke, a teacher and not as young as he used to be, starts his first teaching job. Idyllic impressions make him believe in...

Date of publication
February 2018

• Literary Fiction

Walter Kempowski

Alles umsonst

Novel

No one is more talented in portraying, in an extraordinary novel, the drama of the exodus from East Prussia than Walter Kempowski. In All for Nothing [Alles umsonst] he...

Date of publication
June 2018

• Literary Fiction

Hanns-Josef Ortheil

The Mediterranean Journey

In the hot summer of the year 1967 Hanns-Josef Ortheil and his father set off on a long journey. It takes them on a heavily laden cargo ship from Antwerp through the Straits of...

Date of publication
November 2018

• Literary Fiction