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  • The Sweet Indifference of the World

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SEASON BY VOGUEIn this alluring, melancholic novel—Peter Stamm at his best—a writer haunted by his double blurs the line between past and present, fiction and reality, in his attempt to outrun the unknown.**“Please come to Skogskyrkogården tomorrow at 2. I have a story I want to tell you.” Lena agrees to Christoph's out-of-the-blue request, though the two have never met. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • To the Back of Beyond

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Man Booker Prize nominee Peter Stamm explores in his sixth novel what it means to be in the middle of nowhere, in mind and in body.Happily married with two children and a comfortable home in a Swiss town, Thomas and Astrid enjoy a glass of wine in their garden on a night like any other. Called back to the house by their son's cries, Astrid goes inside, expecting her husband to join her in a bit. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Very German Christmas

    The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann Hesse, Heinrich Heine, The Brothers Grimm, Kurt Tucholsky, Erich Kästner, Ilse Frapan, Martin Suter, Peter Stamm, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Böll, Helene Stökl, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Joseph Roth, Peter Rosegger, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Ernst Anschütz ...
    series Very Christmas
    This collection of new and classic Christmas literature includes stories by Herman Hesse, Joseph Roth, The Brothers Grimm, and many others.This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll find classic works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Archive of Feelings

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    **Given a second chance with an old love, a coolly detached archivist questions the life he could have had, and whether it’s not too late to live it.A poignant, ingeniously constructed new novel from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review).**Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • It's Getting Dark

    Stories

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A new story collection from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review) deftly evokes and explores the shifts that occur when the world grows dark.Snowed in at a remote artists’ residency in Vermont, Peter recalls another Christmas some thirty years earlier, when he met Marcia by chance on a trip to New York City. Only now, in this eerie, isolated place, does he begin to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • We're Flying

    Stories

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm’s reputation: the directness of the prose, the deceptive surface simplicity of the narratives, and deep psychological insight into the existential dilemmas of contemporary life. Stamm does not waste a word, nor does he ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Seven Years

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hoffman ...
    Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women—and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury. But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working long ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Agnes

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Peter Stamm's best-selling debut novel, Agnes, now available for the first time in paperback.“Write a story about me,” Agnes said to her lover, “so I know what you think of me.” So he started to write the story of everything that had happened to them from the moment they met.At first, he works with Agnes to create a narrative that is most true to life, but as time passes and he grows more enamored ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • All Days Are Night

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A novel about survival, self-reliance, and art, by Peter Stamm, finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International PrizeAll Days Are Night is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful TV host, content with her marriage to Matthias, even if she feels restless at times. One night following an argument, the couple has a terrible car accident: Matthias, who is drunk, hits a deer on the wet road and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In Strange Gardens and Other Stories

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life.They are bankers, students, mothers, or retirees. They live in New York City or somewhere in Switzerland, they work in London or Riga, they cross paths in a Fado bar in Lisbon. They breathe the banal routine of daily life. It is to these ordinary people that Peter Stamm grants ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Unformed Landscape

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Unformed Landscape begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • On A Day Like This

    A Novel

    by Peter Stamm ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement, and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of Unformed Landscape and In Strange GardensOn a day like any other, Andreas changes his life. When a routine doctor’s visit leads to an unexpected prognosis, a great yearning takes hold of him—but who can tell if it is homesickness or wanderlust? Andreas leaves everything behind ... Read more

    $10.99 USD