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"Winner of the 2014 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize" "Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "One of The Guardian Best Books of 2013, chosen by Colm Tóibín" "Longlisted for the 2014 PEN Translation Award, Pen American Center" Reiner Stach worked extensively on the definitive edition of Kafka's collected works before embarking on this three-volume...
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527 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"Endless Flight travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to an unsettled life spent roaming Europe between the wars, including spells in Vienna, Paris and Berlin. His decline mirrored the collapse of civilized Europe: in his last peripatetic decade, he opposed Nazism in exile from Germany, his wife succumbed to schizophrenia and he died an alcoholic on the eve of WWII. Exploring the...
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390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Documents the tragic story of the intellectual, humanitarian, and best-selling author to trace his rapid downfall after the rise of the Nazi party and the years of exile in various world regions that culminated in his 1942 suicide.
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Tres edades volume 131
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147 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
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The story of when Franz Kafka met a little girl in Berlin who had lost her doll. Kafka tells the girl that her doll isn't lost, it's just traveling the world. He rights letters to the girl to convince her.
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163 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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"The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language -- a dazzling work of historical nonfiction. It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming...
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