Ten-year-old Emil Tischbein, traveling by bus to Berlin with money for his grandmother pinned to his coat, is robbed by a petty crook who works for "The Baron," a criminal mastermind. Emil teams up with a streetwise boy and his band of detectives to catch the thieves.
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transform…
Ending her relationship with a man who she discovers is a popular anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, a woman activist travels from Washington, DC, to Berlin, where she struggles with increasingly manipulative dynamics in her online, business, and social circles.
On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shoc…
On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shoc…
The heroine of this novel is a middle-aged Croatian and the novel is composed of fragments. She reflects on exile, life in Berlin, there's a recipe for caraway soup and a romantic encounter in Lisbon.
This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play wi…
Een Engelse geheim agent raakt tijdens een operatie in Oost-Berlijn betrokken bij een dodelijk spel met dubbelagenten.
A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
by Bernofsky, Susan, Greven, Jochen, Walser, Robert, (Robert Otto)
fromNew York Review Books classics
Bundel korte verhalen over het Berliijn van begin 20e eeuw.
'Berlin Stories' collects Robert Walser's alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, Berlin.
by Walser, Robert, Bernofsky, Susan, Greven, Jochen
fromNew York Review Books classics
by Walser, Robert, Bernofsky, Susan, Greven, Jochen
fromNew York Review Books classics
A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects hi…
by Walser, Robert, Bernofsky, Susan, Greven, Jochen
fromNew York Review Books classics
A New York Review Books Original In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects h…