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  | | Words to Outlive Us(1st Edition) Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto by Michal Grynberg, Philip Boehm Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2003 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42268-4, ISBN: 0-312-42268-7 "This collective memoir--a mosaic of individual diaries, journals, and accounts--follows the fate of the Warsaw Jews from the first bombardments of the Polish capital to the razing of the Jewish district: the frantic exchange of apartments as the walls first go up; the daily battle against starvation and disease; the moral ambiguities confronting Jewish bureaucracies under Nazi rule; the ingenuity of smugglers; and the acts of resistance ..." |
 | | The Lamentations of Zeno(Illustrated) A Novel by Ilija Trojanow, Philip Boehm Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-219-1, ISBN: 1-78478-219-X "A literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the AntarcticZeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic glaciologist. Now in his early sixties, Zeno bewails the loss of his beloved glaciers, th ..." |
 | | A Little Annihilation by Anna Janko, Philip Boehm Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2020 by World Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-64286-066-5, ISBN: 1-64286-066-2 "June 1, 1943, Eastern Poland. Within just a few hours, the village of Sochy had ceased to exist. Buildings were burned. Residents shot. Among the ruins remained a single house and a few survivors. One of these was nine-year-old Teresa Ferenc, who saw her family murdered by German soldiers, and would never forget what she witnessed the day she became an orphan. The horror of that event was etched into her very being and passed on to her ..." |
 | | The Foxes and Dr. Shimamura by Christine Wunnicke, Philip Boehm Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2624-0, ISBN: 0-8112-2624-7 "A delicious mix of East and West, of wonder and irony, The Foxes and Dr. Shimamura is a most curious novelThe Foxes and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses Japan and Europe, memory and actuality, fox-possession myths and psychiatric mythmaking. The novel begins near the story’s end, in Dr. Shimamura’s retirement. A feverish invalid, he’s watched over by four women: his wife, his mother, his mother-in- law, and a nurse (originally one ..." |
 | | The Appointment(2nd Edition) A Novel by Herta Müller, Michael Hulse, Philip Boehm, Herta/ Hulse Muller, 赫塔•米勒 Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-65537-2, ISBN: 0-312-65537-1 "From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time, she believes, will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suit ..." |
 | | Settlement A Novel by Christopher Hein, Philip Boehm, Philip Böhm Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2008 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7768-1, ISBN: 0-8050-7768-5 "In “one of the most important German novels of recent years,”* a man, a town, and a country wrestle with fifty years of displacement and political upheavalProvincial Guldenberg is still reeling from World War II when a flood of German refugees arrives from the east, Bernhard Haber’s family among them. Life is hard enough—Bernhard’s father has lost an arm and his carpenter’s income. But added to this injury comes an accumulation of insul ..." |
 | | The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt (New Directions Paperbook) by Wilhelm Genazino, Philip Boehm Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1583-1, ISBN: 0-8112-1583-0 "This brief and poignant novel from Germany explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life.The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt by Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germany's highest literary honor, is finally available to English-speaking readers in a pitch-perfect translation by Philip Boehm.Employed by a high-en ..." |
 | | Words to Outlive Us(1st Edition) Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto by Michal Grynberg, Philip Boehm, Henry Holt Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 2002 by Metropolitan Books Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-5833-8, ISBN: 0-8050-5833-8 "The story of the Warsaw Ghetto told through twenty-eight never-before-published accounts-a precious and historic find.In the history of the Holocaust, the Warsaw Ghetto stands as the enduring symbol of Jewish suffering and heroism. This collective memoir-a mosaic of individual diaries, journals, and accounts-follows the fate of the Warsaw Jews from the first bombardments of the Polish capital to the razing of the Jewish district. The li ..." |
 | | German Comedy(Reprint) Scenes of Life after the Wall by Peter Schneider, Philip Boehm, Leigh Hafrey Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1992 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52358-9, ISBN: 0-374-52358-4 "Scenes of Life After the Wall Peter Schneider. There seems to me a good deal of sense in the observations of Heike Berger, an East German specialist in psychiatry and neurology. She sees the "general loss of all values" which East Germans are now experiencing as an opportunity. "In times like these, it is hardly pathological for people to feel unsure and anxious. It would be abnormal if they didn't. As far as I'm concerned, uncerta ..." |
 | | Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall, Philip Boehm, Mariusz Szczygiel Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by The Feminist Press At Cuny ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-944-9, ISBN: 1-55861-944-5 "Winner of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2017This canonical work of Polish reportage is a terse, unexpected human lesson born of an occupation-era love story. Based on a true story, the raw interplay of history and fictionalization spans the Warsaw Ghetto, the war-torn countryside, and the nightmare of Auschwitz.This is the book’s first US publication.Hanna Krall was born in 1935 in Poland and su ..." |
 | | The Hunger Angel(Reprint) A Novel by Herta Müller, Philip Boehm, Herta Ma Ller Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2013 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-03208-9, ISBN: 1-250-03208-3 "A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee)It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, m ..." |
 | | The Appointment(Reprint) A Novel by Philip Boehm, Michael Hulse, Herta Müller, Herta Ma Ller, 赫塔•米勒 Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Saint Martins Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42054-3, ISBN: 0-312-42054-4 "WINNER OF THE 2009 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE From the winner of the IMPAC Award, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time, she believes, will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into ..." |
 | | The Fox Was Ever the Hunter Herta Muller by Herta Muller, Philip Boehm Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Portobello Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84627-476-3, ISBN: 1-84627-476-1 "Romania, the last months of the dictator's regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara, Adina's friend, works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara's lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another day, a hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilation is a sign that she is being tracked - the fox ..." |
 | | The German Comedy(1st Edition) Scenes of Life After the Wall by Peter Schneider, Philip Boehm, Leigh Hafrey Hardcover, 211 Pages, Published 1991 by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10201-2, ISBN: 0-374-10201-5 "A tour of Germany after reunification provides anecdotes of the West German people, an East German baker, Bavarian yodelers, Stalinist functionaries, and Western capitalists" |
 | | Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library Series) by Franz Kafka, Philip Boehm Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Schocken ISBN-13: 978-0-8052-1267-9, ISBN: 0-8052-1267-1 "In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in "Letters to Milena, "which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifter and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For thirty-six-year-old Kafka, she was "a living fire, such as ..." |
 | | The Hunger Angel(1st Edition) A Novel by Herta Müller, Philip Boehm, Herta/ Boehm Muller, Herta MLler, Herta MâLler, The Hunger Angel Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Metropolitan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-9301-8, ISBN: 0-8050-9301-X "A masterful new novel from the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize, hailed for depicting the "landscape of the dispossessed" with "the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose" (Nobel Prize Committee)It was an icy morning in January 1945 when the patrol came for seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg to deport him to a camp in the Soviet Union. Leo would spend the next five years in a coke processing plant, shoveling coal, lugging bricks, m ..." |
 | | Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin, Philip Boehm Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100805-6, ISBN: 0-15-100805-1 "Germans flee the besieged city of Danzig in 1945. Poles driven out of eastern regions controlled by the Russians move into the homes hastily abandoned by their previous inhabitants. In an area of the city graced with beech trees and a stately cathedral, the stories of old and new residents intertwine: Hanemann, a German and a former professor of anatomy, who chooses to stay in Danzig after the mysterious death of his lover; the Polish f ..." |
 | | Damascus Nights(1st Edition) by Rafik Schami, Philip Boehm Hardcover, 263 Pages, Published 1993 by Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) ISBN-13: 978-0-374-13446-4, ISBN: 0-374-13446-4 "Set in Damascus in 1959 and told as a collection of stories, this novel recalls memories of the ancient past and past glories of Syria as they fade in the face of modernism. By the author of A Hand Full of Stars. " |
 | | The Flower Ball(1st Edition) by Sigrid Laube, Silke Leffler, Philip Boehm Hardcover, 30 Pages, Published 2006 by Pumpkin House, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-0-9646010-2-4, ISBN: 0-9646010-2-8 "With charming and colorful illustrations, this lively story delivers an important message of acceptance to young readers. When Cauliflower and Carrot decide to go to the Flower Ball, the other vegetables are scandalized-- since vegetables and flowers don't look and smell alike, they think they should stick to their own kinds. At the ball, the flowers are indignant over this strange brushwood attending their fragrant party, but Cauliflow ..." |
 | | Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall, Philip Boehm Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2013 by Peirene Press Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-908670-10-6, ISBN: 1-908670-10-X "WINNER ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2013 The internationally acclaimed Polish bestseller about the Holocaust. A remarkable true story of love and survival. Now for the first time in English. The Warsaw Ghetto 1942: When Izolda's husband, Shayek, is imprisoned, she sets out to release him. She changes her name, her hair, her religion. Eventually she is captured and deported to Auschwitz. But even there, she trusts that her love will save them bot ..." |
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