The Berlin Stories, Paperback

3 of the 38 stories here are drawn from the collection Selected Stories of Robert Walser, set in Berlin from 1905 onwards.

The stories of Berlin are the stories BUILT ON SAND; a novel offering a portrait of a city three decades on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, and t...

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin - author of A Manual for Cleaning Women.

"A volume of short stories that revolve around the history, geography and literary traditions of Berlin."--New York Times Book Review, "Globetrotti...

'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of s...

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A story of 3 polar bears: a memorist who flees the Soviet Union; a dancer in an East Berlin circus; and Knut, a baby bear born in Berlin Zoo. A ref...

Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, Berlin has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants...

A collection of short stories set in the past in Berlin.

The bittersweet, sharply observed stories in Blue in Chicago introduce British readers for the first time to Bette Howland, a forgotten great of tw...

The true stories of how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed the lives of 8 people who once lived behind it.

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By exploring how translation has shaped the literary contexts of six Iraqi woman writers, this book offers new insights into their translation path...

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Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visi...

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There was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Ea...

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Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban...

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DescriptionBerlin's hip present comes up against the city's dark past in these seven supernatural tales by the son of the great filmmaker who "shar...

Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Anna FunderNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

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Through a genealogy of photosensitive elements in media devices and artworks, this book investigates three dichotomies that impoverish debates and ...

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Juxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta Muller's c...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Danny M. CohenOver ten days in 1943 Berlin, six teenagers witness and try to escape the Nazi round-ups. This young adult th...

Scandinavia's most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recogn...

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From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-cen...

From Berlin to Boston, and St Petersburg to Sydney, ancient Egyptian art fills the galleries of some of the world's greatest museums, while the arc...

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From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex w...

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